From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Dos char set Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <8h7nqr$6u9$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com> <0fifjsgugpmpuvrkkp0rnthddapuliqrf0 AT 4ax DOT com> <8h98ki$aja$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 X-Trace: /wObnZ6mb8S/qR1uMnQJ2HGUyv12jqZBWs0s5jyu5gcEmGsG3k3a2/Ue422SgsOllpN12gmZ9g/p!1GFCS7eU3mAExyKRm/jqjv97Sg3KuKLaVG4c2C6Z/YI7tux8glKoiunRRwRreLh57EDcCQPPl9HO!/fo= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 22:50:04 GMT Distribution: world Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 22:50:04 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 21:23:48 GMT, rob89 AT my-deja DOT com wrote: >You said that each row is one byte. If there are 8 rows then would it >not mean that in total a character would be stored in 8 bytes? Does it >mean that the characters (in BIOS) are stored in 8 byte formats? I am >confused here as u said that they are stored in a bitmap... Yes, each glyph is stored as eight bytes, each containing one row of the image. They are stored as a raw bitmap (not a Windows bitmap or an Allegro "bitmap"); it's easier to see this if you look up how to write drivers for the 16-color screen modes. -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/