Re: Regarding VGA Fonts ?

Sachin Garg (sachin@cdacb.ernet.in)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 04:34:51 +0500 (GMT-5)


On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Teunis Peters wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Sachin Garg wrote:
>
> > Where can I get more information related to the screen fonts used by Linux
> > to display text on the console? If I set a font say t.fnt on my machine,
> > how is it possible (if at all) to use the same font on some machine which
> > is telnetting into my machine?

[snip]

> The format of a .PSF file is as follows: (from kbd_utils)
>
> Byte Size of field Contents
> 0 Word File ID, always 0436h
> 2 Byte File mode

[snip]

I read that, but what i want to know is "is there any relationship
between postscript fonts and these .psf fonts?"

tia,

sachin

> G'day, eh?
> - Teunis

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