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John Lindroth

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Aug 17, 1994, 4:22:40 PM8/17/94
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I am looking for a MS Windows font that contains the DEC
graphics characters. Any suggestions, pointers, etc. ?

I prefer an e-mail response, but a response to the group
is okay, too.

Thanks!!!

John

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Raif Naffah

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Aug 23, 1994, 5:34:38 AM8/23/94
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John Lindroth (lind...@musc.edu) wrote:
: I am looking for a MS Windows font that contains the DEC

: graphics characters. Any suggestions, pointers, etc. ?

In the Agfa PostScript Type collection, in Volume 46, entitled LOGOS:
COMPANY 6, the Digital logo is available.

Agfa contact info follows:
Agfa Div., Miles Inc.
Tel: 508 658 5600
Fax: 508 687 5328

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Robert Rosenbaum

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Aug 23, 1994, 1:33:17 PM8/23/94
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ra...@jolt.mpx.com.au (Raif Naffah) writes:

>John Lindroth (lind...@musc.edu) wrote:
>: I am looking for a MS Windows font that contains the DEC
>: graphics characters. Any suggestions, pointers, etc. ?

There is a program called xwindemo which runs xwindows under windows
sockets (winsock). It includes a lot of windows .fon fonts, including
several sizes and weights of DEC Terminal. These fonts are available
in both DEC and iso8859 registries. The DEC registry fonts have
graphics symbols in place of the lower case, and I can only guess that
this is what you are looking for.

These fonts are 14pt, and 75dpi. There may have also been 100dpi
variants, but I deleted all those from my drive.

Rob
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William D. Taylor

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Aug 27, 1994, 6:35:57 PM8/27/94
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>>John Lindroth (lind...@musc.edu) wrote:
>>: I am looking for a MS Windows font that contains the DEC
>>: graphics characters. Any suggestions, pointers, etc. ?

There is a demo of a VT-220 terminal emulation VBX available on
ftp.cica.indiana.edu and its mirrors. I believe it is called GCP_24.EXE and
is located in the demo directory. Anyway, it has what you want in the
file VT220.FON. Also, DEC Pathworks V4.1 and V5.0 comes with a VT320 package
which includes Windows system fonts. The DEC font is preferable, as it has
all of the characters for the DEC Multinational Character Set, ISO Latin-1,
and DEC Special Graphics in a single font, with the graphics characters
appearing as ASCII 0-31. The VT220.FON has a separate font for the DEC
Special Graphics (VT100 Line Drawing), with the line drawing characters
replacing the lowercase alpha characters.

I wish to create my own (non-copyright) version of the DEC terminal fonts, but
don't know how to create a .FON file, and several posts to this group have not
been helpful. If someone can tell me how to do it, I will spend the time
drawing the font and put it in the public domain.

-DT

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