Alain M. wrote:
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.
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Step 1) You will need a program to convert the fonts from the debian
project. The program is pcftobdf available, from
<http://www.tsg.ne.jp/GANA/S/pcf2bdf/>
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 :)
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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
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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
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Alain I'm going to bottom post my entire reply so as not to get
confused. First let me ask if you are speaking about running xdosemu in
an xterm as I do or are you talking about running dosemu in a terminal
(no X)?
I was able to obtains fonts ready to go by
apt-get xfonts-dosemu
This installs the fonts in
/usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts
Those fonts are:
vga10x20-cp866.pcf.gz vga11x19.pcf.gz vga8x19.pcf.gz vga.pcf.gz
vga10x24.pcf.gz vga12x30.pcf.gz vga-cp866.pcf.gz
From there it was just a case of running the programs:
mkfontdir - create an index of X font files in a directory
fc-cache -f -v
xset - set user preferences for X
see xset fp rehash to reset the font paths to current value.
I'm not sure why you are compiling stuff.
Larry
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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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