minix man page for loadfont

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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). LOADFONT(1)
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