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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 Aug 2000.
Re: Suggested Fonts (Win)

Re: Suggested Fonts (Win)

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:21:18 +0200, Marco Kirschke <Mar...@gmx.de>
provoked the following text:

>>The old DOS font is the same as "Terminal".
>That's not quite right!
>Terminal:
>  ___
> /   /\
> |  / |
> | /  |
> \/___/
>
>OldSchoolDos:
>  ___
> /   \
> |   |
> | # |
> |   |
> \___/

That all depends on what video card you had/have, what brand it was, whether it
was HGA, CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, what codepage you used...
Anyway, Terminal is quite similar to HGA DOS font.

>Okay, the main arugement for not using Terminal is I read mainly german
>Newsgroups, so all the postings including ��� ('ae'/'oe'/'ue') won't display
>correctly... :( 

Would it display correctly if you viewed the text in a DOS window?
--
        Peter Punk
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