File text2font/README
Aronsson was here
5 November 1992

TEXT2FONT	-- Convert between MGR font format and text

Files you find here:

README		-- this file

font2text	-- LINUX executable for libc.so.4/Jump table 4.1
text2font	-- LINUX executable for libc.so.4/Jump table 4.1

font2text.1	-- shadow manual page
text2font.1	-- real manual page

font2text.c	-- source file
text2font.c	-- source file

nums.fnt	-- a funny font for debugging
run7x12r.fnt	-- a font with some Old Norse runes
ser14x24rL.fnt	-- a large ISO 8859-1 eight bit font
ser7x12rL.fnt	-- a small ISO 8859-1 eight bit font

To enable your MGR for eight bit fonts, remove the "& 0177" in MGR
source file put_window.c, edit the MGR makefile so gcc uses the extra
option -funsigned-chars, then recompile MGR. I don't know whether this
could cause troubles with some exotic modem applications of MGR. I
guess there must have been some reason behind masking that 8th bit in
the first place. If you get trouble, it is your fault. Be warned!

There is no Makefile here. Everything should be simple enough for
anyone to understand. Read the manual page and play around with the
included fonts, or your favorite MGR fonts. Perhaps you will find time
to make the larger ISO font more beautiful? I use the smaller one.

Lars Aronsson, Lysator, Linkoping University, Sweden
<aronsson@lysator.liu.se>
