.TH LOADFONT 1

.SH NAME

loadfont \- load a font into the video card

.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBloadfont \fIfontfile\fR

.br

.de FL

.TP

\\fB\\$1\\fR

\\$2

..

.de EX

.TP 20

\\fB\\$1\\fR

# \\$2

..

.SH EXAMPLES

.TP 20

.B loadfont iso1.fnt

# Loads the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) font

.SH DESCRIPTION

.PP

.I 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.

.PP

.I Loadfont

together with

.I loadkeys

allow the console and keyboard to be customized to national conventions.

.PP

If it exists, the file

.I /etc/font

is loaded as a custom font by

.B /usr/etc/rc

at boot time.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR console (4).