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MAPSCRN(8)		     International Support		    MAPSCRN(8)

NAME
       mapscrn - load screen output mapping table

SYNOPSIS
       mapscrn [-v] [-o map.orig] mapfile

DESCRIPTION
       The  mapscrn  command  is  obsolete - its function is now built-in into
       setfont.	 However, for backwards compatibility it is still available as
       a separate command.

       The mapscrn command loads a user defined output character mapping table
       into the console driver. The console driver may be later put  into  use
       user-defined mapping table mode by outputting a special escape sequence
       to the console device.  This sequence is <esc>(K for the	 G0  character
       set and <esc>)K for the G1 character set.  When the -o option is given,
       the old map is saved in map.orig.

USE
       There are two kinds of mapping tables: direct-to-font tables, that give
       a  font	position  for each user byte value, and user-to-unicode tables
       that give a unicode value for each user byte. The  corresponding	 glyph
       is now found using the unicode index of the font.  The command
	      mapscrn trivial
       sets  up	 a  one-to-one	direct-to-font table where user bytes directly
       address the font. This is useful for fonts that are in the  same	 order
       as the character set one uses.  A command like
	      mapscrn 8859-2
       sets  up	 a  user-to-unicode  table that assumes that the user uses ISO
       8859-2.

INPUT FORMAT
       The mapscrn command can read the map in either of two formats:
       1. 256 or 512 bytes binary data
       2. two-column text file
       Format (1) is a direct image of the translation	table.	The  256-bytes
       tables  are  direct-to-font,  the  512-bytes tables are user-to-unicode
       tables.	Format (2) is used to fill the table  as  follows:  cell  with
       offset mentioned in the first column is filled with the value mentioned
       in the second column.  When values larger than 255 occur, or values are
       written	using  the U+xxxx notation, the table is assumed to be a user-
       to-unicode table, otherwise it is a direct-to-font table.

       Values in the file may be specified in one of several formats:
       1. Decimal: String of decimal digits not starting with '0'
       2. Octal: String of octal digits beginning with '0'.
       3. Hexadecimal: String of hexadecimal digits preceded by "0x".
       4. Unicode: String of four hexadecimal digits preceded by "U+".
       5. Character: Single character enclosed	in  single  quotes.  (And  the
       binary  value  is used.)	 Note that blank, comma, tab character and '#'
       cannot be specified with this format.
       6. UTF-8	 Character:  Single  (possibly	multi-byte)  UTF-8  character,
       enclosed in single quotes.

       Note that control characters (with codes < 32) cannot be re-mapped with
       mapscrn because they have special meaning for the driver.

FILES
       /lib/kbd/consoletrans is the default directory for screen mappings.

SEE ALSO
       setfont(8)

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1993 Eugene G. Crosser
       <crosser@pccross.msk.su>
       This software and documentation may be distributed freely.

Local				 20 March 1993			    MAPSCRN(8)
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