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Article #3301Re: Nasty.com, changing the character fonts on a text mode screen
From: Eric Thav
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 15:56
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 15:56
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In article <1991May31.015315.18704@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rda654z@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean) writes: >In doing a strings on the program I came up with two strings inside the >executable. They were, "PC Magazine" and "Michael J. Mefford". I've searched >the simtel archives for both a file names nasty*.* and in the PCMAG directory, >but with no luck. I've also tried archie but still couldn't find it. NASTY.COM is most likely a .COM file resulted from PC Magazine's FONTEDIT program. A program which will allow you to change the appearance of your DOS screen font and generate a .COM file that will change the font to the new one on demand. I'm not quite sure what issue it was in, but Volume 7 comes to mind. -- .signature not found, format hard disk instead? (Y/N)_ Eric L. Thav Florida Atlantic University - Boca Raton, FL INTERNET: eric@acc.fau.edu GEnie: E.THAV | PRODIGY: Lots of ads BITNET: eric@fauvax PRODIGY: NMVG80A | and we read your mail!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!uflorida!shark!eric From: eric@cs.fau.edu (Eric Thav) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Nasty.com, changing the character fonts on a text mode screen Message-ID: <1991Jun06.155606.28544@cs.fau.edu> Date: 6 Jun 91 15:56:06 GMT References: <1991May31.015315.18704@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Lines: 18