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Answer» Hi! At my job I am working with a strictly DOS system, no version of Windows is installed on this computer, and I have some fonts that I NEED to install. I have the fonts on a disk, and I can pull up the directory of that disk and see the fonts on it, but what commands do I use to find the font directory on the c: drive? And once I have found the font directory on c:, what commands do I use to copy the fonts from the disk to that directory? I am experienced working with Windows, but when it comes to DOS I know very little.DOS doesn't even have a concept of fonts. DOS doesn't even have a concept of fonts.Quote MS-DOS does not support the concept of DIFFERENT fonts, it does (or at least the graphics card does) support the concept of changing screen resolution, which has the effect of changing the font.http://www.jasspa.com/me/m2cmd027.htmlA:) DOS doesn't support fonts, aside from the default, VIDEO card-provided text mode font. PERIOD. no exceptions. DOS APPLICATIONS might, DOS itself does not. the only "font" support is by hacking around video memory and changing the bitmaps for the text mode display, which doesn't change a font any more then drawing a picture in paint is changing a font. At the DOS prompt- that is, when you are RUNNING only DOS- you cannot change the video resolution, except for a few instances such as mode commands or changing the number of columns or rows. In those cases, it doesn't use "fonts" any more then it is using "predefined bitmaps in video memory". Can you change those? yes. That doesn't mean they are fonts, nor does it necessarily mean that DOS supports fonts because it happens to be running while all this is going on. There is no "fonts" directory in DOS. you cannot install Fonts in DOS. |
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