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Message-Id: <m0yP5cr-000S3XC@inti.gov.ar>
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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: "Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:25:13 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: RHIDE and W95
In-reply-to: <VluY.164$d63.123902@news21.bellglobal.com>

"Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net> wrote:
> SET wrote:
> 
> >Hmmm... I think it can be configured in some .ini or similar file. Is possible
> >because some of the fonts are TT.
> 
> I have no clue what font it even uses, since it doesn't say. The DOS box font
> settings include size characteristics...but no font name. It resembles system
> or some other dinky fixed-width one though.

Some of them are True Type, is indicated in the list.

> (.ini? I thought W95 did everything with those funky registry keys... 

:-), yes, but the ini files are there for compatibility. I remmember that in 
W3.1 was possible to do it in one of the ini files. 

> I ran a
> registry monitor, though, and when I opened a dos box and diddled the font
> nothing happened to the registry, not even when I exited, forcing it to save
> the changes, wherever it does that. I suspect it uses a .pif... which is, woe
> of woes, a crufty proprietary binary format with no known real
> bit-twiddle-level editors.)

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