COMPLETELY amazed! How is it done?

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From: Alan Mead
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:56

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I thought I knew a thing or two about how VGA fonts work on the IBM
PC...

Then I happened to invoke a little programmer's tsr while in WordPerfect
5.1 .  All the letters that the tsr used were strange greek, foreign,
etc, symbols.  (This is while the prefectly normal charscters show on
the screen.)

I know how to change a font, but how do you make more than 256
different chars appear on the screen?  And why would WordPerfect remap
the normal a..zA..Z to something else?

Thanks.  I'll be able to sleep again when I know.

-alan

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