09-29-2013
No eol in swap file
I was editing a file with vi and crashed so when I opened the file again I had the .swp file to deal with. I made the wrong choice trying to recover my file and wound up with a file with no eol (end of line) characters.
I have forgotten the code to substitute and don't want to make an even bigger mess. What I see now are thousands of ^@ characters.
After I thought I had recovered the file I gave the command
mv .[filename].swp [filename]
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restorefont
restorefont(1) Svgalib User Manual restorefont(1)
NAME
restorefont - save or restore the SVGA font for textmode.
SYNOPSIS
restorefont {-r|-w} filename
DESCRIPTION
The font used by SVGA when in textmode is written to or restored from filename using the vga_gettextfont(3) and vga_puttextfont(3) func-
tions.
FILE FORMAT
The VGA font file filename has the following format:
Offset:
0 - 31 Character 0
... ...
8164 - 8195 Character 255
Each row of a character bitmap is stored as a byte (8 pixels). The space that is left from the 32-byte buffer for each character is
ignored, e.g. a 16 line font uses only offsets 0 - 15 of each character.
Linux textmode screen resolutions:
80x25 16 line font 400 scanlines
80x28 14 line font 400 scanlines
80x50 8 line font 400 scanlines
The font sizes and resolutions of extended textmodes depend on the video card type and BIOS:
132x25 14 line font 350 scanlines (ugly)
132x25 16 line font 400 scanlines
132x43 8 line font 350 scanlines (use fix132x43 to fix/improve)
132x50 8 line font 400 scanlines
Using a font that has less lines per character than the textmode works, but the characters are smaller. Using a font that is bigger than
the textmode font results in the bottom part of characters being cut off.
The svgalib distribution contains sample fonts with 8, 14 and 16 line characters in the files utils/font8, utils/font14, and utils/font16.
The convfont (1) program can be used to convert fonts straightforwardly stored character-after-character (i.e. each character only uses
8/14/whatever bytes), to the 32-byte per character format that restorefont requires.
The purpose of this program is usually to recover from a crashed console due to an svgalib, Xfree or other program bug. First save the
state of the SVGA card when on a text console. After the crash restore this state. The savetextmode(1) and textmode(1) script makes this
procedure very easy.
The national/fontpak packages, which include kernel patches, allow different textmode fonts to be used in different virtual consoles. These
have been superseded by the kbd package (in the kernel since ages). See the setfont(8) utility of the kbd package as a starting point.
Recent kernels support up to 2 fonts with 512 chars each. Recent versions of svgalib take this into account and extend the size of the
datafile accordingly.
OPTIONS
-w filename
write the font to the file filename.
-r filename
restore the font from the file filename.
SEE ALSO
svgalib(7), vgagl(7), libvga.config(5), setfont(8), vga_gettextfont(3), vga_puttextfont(3), dumpreg(1), convfont(1), fix132x43(1), restore-
textmode(1), restorepalette(1), runx(1), savetextmode(1), setmclk(1), textmode(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was edited by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>. The exact source of the referenced utility as well as of the
original documentation is unknown.
It is very likely that both are at least to some extent are due to Harm Hanemaayer <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.
Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby asked to be excused by the original author and will happily accept any additions or corrections
to this first version of the svgalib manual.
Svgalib (>= 1.2.11) 2 Aug 1997 restorefont(1)