From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 24 00:21:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA13420 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA13397 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA15606; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 09:21:19 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA15969; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 09:21:19 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA09299; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:59:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608240659.IAA09299@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: pcvt features To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:59:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: brianc@pobox.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Hellmuth Michaelis at "Aug 24, 96 07:11:24 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > I was also wondering why pcvt restricted its [VGA] font support to 8, > > 10, 14 and 16 scanline fonts. > > I don't know ;-) Btw., now as i re-read them, it's not accurate either. The display is limited to 25, 28, 40, or 50 character rows on a VGA, but you have to account for overall screen size, so this is only 8/10/14/16 lines per character cell for a 400-line display. As i wrote, i needed to work on a 480-line notebook LCD display, this works now with bigger fonts (but still 25/28/40/50 character rows). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)