RE: COMPLETELY amazed! how is it done

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From: vdkamp
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:15

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In article <C16zAy.KIz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead) writes:

[.... stuff deleted....] 

> 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?

The EGA/VGA Character generator can display simultaniously 512 different 
characters on your screen.

Russian (Cyrillic fonts) people don't have a..zA..Z characters so they
remap.

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

Sleep well....

Bob.

VDKAMP@RULLF2.LeidenUniv.nl

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