eaeg015@orion.oac.uci.edu (David Lawyer) (07/24/90)
I have written a couple of programs in C to generate softfonts which can be downloaded into Wyse and/or VT200 terminals. You first create a drawing of the characters with the * symbol representing a pixel. ***** This example is unusually small (only 5x5) and a typical cheap *.... terminal will use 7x12 characters. Next you run my font generator ***** on your characters and obtain the softfont code to download to a *.... terminal. The font will then display on the crt. You will ***** probably need to write a shell script to set up your terminal correctly, load the font into the appropriate bank, etc. I have only used these programs for a Wyse99GT terminal but one of them should work on a Wyse 60 and the other should work on most of the many terminals which have a VT200 or VT220 mode of operation. I have used these for Cyrillic font (Russian) and have a pattern file for this font. This is the first release of them and they haven't been used or tested much. These programs should be in a TermFonts directory for ftp from ics.uci.edu. Dave Lawyer