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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Aug 2000.
Re: Suggested Fonts (Win)

Re: Suggested Fonts (Win)

Marco Kirschke wrote:
> 
> Hi Rasmus,..
> 
> Rasmus Klitgaard-Nielsen <pin...@cs.auc.dk> schrieb folgendes:
> 
> >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
> --
>             \\//o\__ __   (o) |\ /|\___ __  :-(o_)^(o_)-:[THA ULTIMATIVE]
>  .:::::::::. []\_/o ) /   (\\ ||V||o\o ) /_ :     <     : //~\\||//|\ /|
> :' __   __ ':    ||\\_\||//         ||\\_\o\:.  _..._  .: ||\\|| ( ||V||
> :-( o)^( o)-:          ||\\              \_/ :. '---' .:  \\_\\||\\|| ||

How's this font?  http://www.crosswinds.net/~be34269/files/vga.fon

-- 
Ben Esacove
bes...@hotmail.com

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