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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Aug 2000.
Re: Suggested Fonts (Win)

Re: Suggested Fonts (Win)

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:22:55 +0200, Marco Kirschke <Mar...@gmx.de>
provoked the following text:

>>Try looking on www.microsoft.com for the file gc0651.exe, it contains
>>the MS-Linedraw TTF, which looks just like the DOS fonts (and has
>>non-ascii chars too)
>um? I donwloaded the file, and it contains the font MS-Linedraw TTF, but this
>font looks exactly like Courier New not like the DOS-Font. :(
>Where can I get the real DOS-Font? I need it, because it is the only font I
>know, which displays the ' (039) correctly. Yes, I know that Terminal displays
>the ' correctly, too, but its char-height is too low, so that all ascii-arts
>looks bad. :(
>
>BTW: How can I create my own fonts? Then I could copy&paste the chars from the
>Dos-Box... ;)0

The old DOS font is the same as "Terminal".
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