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From: eric@cs.fau.edu (Eric Thav)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Nasty.com, changing the character fonts on a text mode screen
Message-ID: <1991Jun06.155606.28544@cs.fau.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 15:56:06 GMT
References: <1991May31.015315.18704@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
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In article <1991May31.015315.18704@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rda654z@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean) writes:
>In doing a strings on the program I came up with two strings inside the
>executable.  They were, "PC Magazine" and "Michael J. Mefford".  I've searched
>the simtel archives for both a file names nasty*.* and in the PCMAG directory,
>but with no luck.  I've also tried archie but still couldn't find it.

NASTY.COM is most likely a .COM file resulted from PC Magazine's FONTEDIT
program.  A program which will allow you to change the appearance of your
DOS screen font and generate a .COM file that will change the font to
the new one on demand.  I'm not quite sure what issue it was in, but 
Volume 7 comes to mind.


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