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From: yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Gil)
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Subject: Re: Where Norton's 40-line font comes from
Keywords: VGA font
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Date: 13 May 91 06:43:08 GMT
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In article <1991May11.212813.12636@midway.uchicago.edu> ab2r@quads.uchicago.edu (Marshall Abrams) writes:
>yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Gil)  and joe@proto.com (Joe Huffman) wrote
>wondering about where the font came from when Norton Control Center
>produces a 40-line mode.  I don't know much about this aspect of PC's,
>so what I'm about to say may be extremely naive.
>
>I just did very crude measurements of the 40-line and 50-line font
>heights (by holding a tape measure up to the monitor :-).  It looks as
>if the only difference between them is that the 40-line font has a
>little bit of space between the bottom of a 'p' or 'q' and the top of
>a capital letter, whereas the 50-line mode does not.  The heights of
>the characters themselves appear to be the same in either mode.  Is it
>possible that NCC simply copies the 50-line font and modifies it by
>adding space beneath every character, or something like that?
>
>		Marshall Abrams

The secret is that Norton loads its own 10x8 font. This font
is in the end of the file NCC.EXE and NCD.EXE.

Yossi