minix man page for loadfont

LOADFONT(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LOADFONT(1)

NAME
       loadfont - load a font into the video card

SYNOPSIS
       loadfont fontfile

EXAMPLES
       loadfont iso1.fnt   # Loads the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) font

DESCRIPTION
       Loadfont  loads	a custom font into the video card (EGA or VGA).  The font character size has to be 8x16 pixels and the font file must con-
       tain 256 characters for a total size of 4 kilobytes.

       Loadfont together with loadkeys allow the console and keyboard to be customized to national conventions.

       If it exists, the file /etc/font is loaded as a custom font by /etc/rc at boot time.

SEE ALSO
       console(4).

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