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1.TH LOADFONT 1
2.SH NAME
3loadfont \- load a font into the video card
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5\fBloadfont \fIfontfile\fR
6.br
7.de FL
8.TP
9\\fB\\$1\\fR
10\\$2
11..
12.de EX
13.TP 20
14\\fB\\$1\\fR
15# \\$2
16..
17.SH EXAMPLES
18.EX "loadfont iso1.fnt" "Loads the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) font"
19.SH DESCRIPTION
20.PP
21.I Loadfont
22loads a custom font into the video card (EGA or VGA). The font character
23size has to be 8x16 pixels and the font file must contain 256 characters for
24a total size of 4 kilobytes.
25.PP
26.I Loadfont
27together with
28.I loadkeys
29allow the console and keyboard to be customized to national conventions.
30.PP
31If it exists, the file
32.I /etc/font
33is loaded as a custom font by
34.B /usr/etc/rc
35at boot time.
36.SH "SEE ALSO"
37.BR console (4).
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