Re: PC Screen Graphics Chars in a Mac Font?

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From: Kevin Blaine Fluet
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:36

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teplitz@optilink.UUCP (Ron Teplitz) writes:
>IBM-PCs have type fonts resident in their graphics adapters that allow the
>construction of graphics such as boxes.  Each individual character would be
>a gray rectangle, a horizontal or vertical line segment or corner, etc. Is 
>there a font for the mac that duplicates this Extended Character Set?
>Thanks in advance.

You should be able to get such a font from a communication program which
has an "ANSI" terminal option (Z-Term is a shareware example of such a
program).  There are numerous programs available which will enable you 
to copy fonts that are built-in to programs (ResEdit is my favorite).  

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