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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Character sets?
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.000509.14071@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 91 05:05:09 GMT
References: <4qukZ1w162w@fquest.fidonet.org>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu
Organization: Florida State Universiy Computer Science Department
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In article <4qukZ1w162w@fquest.fidonet.org>, mspacek@fquest.fidonet.org (Mark Spacek) writes:
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>    I've never messed much with character sets on the ST.  Never had any 
>installed but the system default.  Never thought about it much.  UNTIL, a 
>guy showed me a little program the other day.  It was called MACINTOS, I 
>think.  It was like 4270 bytes long, went in his auto folder, and changed 
>the font to a Mac-type font.  It changed the font on the GEM menus on the 
>desktop and the font all through programs that were run.  So..
>    I got to thinking about installing an ANSI character set to make a 
>VT-100 terminal work better with a PC ANSI BBS, etc.  So, I'd kinda like 
>to get some feedback about what character set editors are out there.

Neodesk 3.0 comes with a PD font editor, and a small auto program that can 
replace the system font at boot time.  Alternately, you can use a different 
font just within Neodesk (but have the regular one when you run programs).  
Pretty nifty.
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