jayg
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Post by jayg on Sept 26, 2016 19:50:24 GMT -5
This isn't a direct SPFLITE question, however when I do use SPFLITE I have the font set to terminal. This last week Windows 10 installed updates that screwed up my screen resolutions and the terminal font. It was a real mess. the character set was completely different, the monospace only worked for alpha numeric characters but not symbolic characters and one of the new characters changed the font on whatever line it showed up in. I had to back out the changes to the previous windows install. My question is does anyone know where the terminal font is located, I can't find it in my Windows font file unless it's under a different name. I would like to have a copy handy in case windows updates screws me over again. I hate to go to Microsoft because they never understand the problem and never resolve anything. Thanks.
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Post by George on Sept 27, 2016 10:42:15 GMT -5
jayg: Robert: Odd -- my system is running Win10 and it was built as an upgrade from 8.1. It only just recently jumped up to the 'Anniversary edition'. And in SPFLite it still shows Terminal as as available font. I selected it and it still seems to work just fine. So jayg's problem is truly mysterious.
George
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jayg
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Post by jayg on Sept 27, 2016 12:02:49 GMT -5
The terminal font was installed with Windows Vista and Windows 7 although some characters were different. When I first installed SPFLITE, terminal was the default font, at least on my system. Terminal was initially fine on windows 10 as well until last week. The character set had many recognizable symbols that I use in many files as place markers and as a way to retrieve items from files. After the update Terminal is still there but the monospacing for the symbols is gone. Many of the symbols changed from say a greek letter to one of those vertical lines with horizontal angles. Some symbols were no longer visible and one or more of the symbols would change the size of the text and the tab in any line it was encoded. I tried several different monospaced fonts,none were satisfactory.
I use this bit of rexx code to get a list of symbols /************************************************/ do k=1 to 899 zo=d2c(k) yo.j=yo.j|| k'=' zo' ' zed=length(k) if pos(0,k)=zed then j=j+1 end /************************************************/ do k=1 to j outfile~lineout(right(j,3) yo.k) say yo.k end outfile~close() /************************************************/
I would have gone to Microsoft but they never seem to understand the problem When I upgraded to Windows 10 the system ported over my screen resolution as a custom scale factor. I tried to find out where the scale factor was located in case I lost it and they did not know what I was writing about. They kept instructing me on how to set the screen and text resolutions but none of the system defaults sizes would properly display my window dialogs. And if you did try to reset any field, POOF, your custom scale factor was gone. I had to back off to Windows 7 and reinstall Windows 10 to retrieve my screen sizes.
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Post by George on Sept 27, 2016 15:42:49 GMT -5
I also scanned the whole C: drive and can't find any TERM*.* files. But SPFLite still shows it. So I went to Control Panel -> Fonts which also displays it. Clicked on Properties and guess what, the file is called DOSAPP.FON. Who knew?
So I'd go looking for an old copy of that file and re-install it.
George
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