From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alain M." Subject: Re: Font install manual Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 00:22:59 -0300 Message-ID: <464BCA93.6030503@pobox.com> References: <464BC6E2.9050905@earthlink.net> <464B9DDC.2030209@pobox.com> <464BB7AC.3070307@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <464BB7AC.3070307@mindspring.com> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: dosEmu-list Ok here goes some part of it (I will sent it to the list so that others can contribute). Some of it I have for compiling from svn and some por post installing, so please forgive me if it may get confusing. -------------- Step 1) You will need a program to convert the fonts from the debian project. The program is pcftobdf available, from tar -xzf pcf2bdf-1.04.tgz # modify the Makefile.gcc (some line) from: CC = gcc # to CC = g++ # install make -f Makefile.gcc clean sudo make -f Makefile.gcc install # it would be nice if it could be uploaded somewhere in dosemu site already corrected :) ------------- Step 2) Get the VGA fonts from project debian/terminus http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xfonts-terminus-dos # downlaos the file: xfonts-terminus-dos_4.12-1_all.deb # it is a newer version now... # I don't know how to open it command line, so I opened it with ARK, # and into the directory data.tar.gz I chose the file I want, in this case /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ter-u14b_ibm850.pcf.gz #and drag it to somewhere, they are identified as: inthis case 14 pixels heigh and cp850. # unzip: gunzip -c ter-u14b_ibm850.pcf.gz >ter-u14b_ibm850.pcf # now you need to convert it to dosemu format: /usr/local/bin/pcf2bdf -o vga8x14-cp850.bdf ter-u14b_ibm850.pcf /usr/local/bin/pcf2bdf -o vga10x20-cp850.bdf ter-u20b_ibm850.pcf # I rename the font to a more dos-like name Step 3) Install the font with dosemu compiled from source # Copy the bdf file to the etc directory in dosemu # Copy the second line of the .bdf file to etc/dosemu.alias like this: vga8x14-cp850 -xos4-Terminus-Bold-R-Normal--14-140-72-72-C-80-IBM-CP850 vga10x20-cp850 -xos4-Terminus-Bold-R-Normal--20-200-72-72-C-100-IBM-CP850 # delete the directory /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts # and reinstall dosemu compilado compiled from fonts ---------- or) for dosemu in rpm (I don't find good annotations) # install and reconfigure manualy the fonts in /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts/ # you also need to edit manualy the alias file in the font directory # similar to step 3 above # reconfigur X to recognize the fonts mkfontdir /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts xset fp rehash # but this needs .pcf.gz files, dosemu's install creates them # I will have to look more if I can find how to do it. I hope this is a good start, Alain