LOADFONT 1
NAME
loadfont - load a font into the video card
SYNOPSIS
loadfont fontfile
\\\$1\ \\$2 ..
20 \\\$1\ # \\$2 ..
EXAMPLES
20 loadfont iso1.fnt # Loads the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) font
DESCRIPTION
Loadfont loads a custom font into the video card (EGA or VGA). The font character size has to be 8x16 pixels and the font file must contain 256 characters for a total size of 4 kilobytes.
Loadfont together with loadkeys allow the console and keyboard to be customized to national conventions.
If it exists, the file /etc/font is loaded as a custom font by /usr/etc/rc at boot time.
"SEE ALSO"
console (4).