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WSFONTLOAD(8)		OpenBSD System Manager's Manual		 WSFONTLOAD(8)

NAME
     wsfontload - load a font bitmap into a wscons display device

SYNOPSIS
     wsfontload [-Bbl] [-e encoding] [-f file] [-h height] [-N name]
		[-w width] [fontfile]

DESCRIPTION
     The wsfontload utility loads a font bitmap to a wscons device if the
     device driver supports it.	 The font gets assigned a name in this process
     which it can be referred to by later for use on a display screen.	The
     font is loaded from the specified fontfile, or from stdin if fontfile is
     not provided.

     The options are as follows:

     -B	     Specifies that the font data is ordered right-to-left byte wise.
	     The default is left-to-right.

     -b	     Specifies that the font data is ordered right-to-left bit wise.
	     The default is left-to-right.

     -e encoding
	     Sets the encoding of the font.  This can be either a symbolic
	     abbreviation or a numeric value.  Currently recognized
	     abbreviations are ``iso'' for ISO 8859-1 encoding, ``ibm'' for
	     IBM encoded fonts, and ``pcvt'' for the custom encoding of the
	     supplemental fonts which came with the BSD PCVT console driver.
	     Per default, ``iso'' is assumed.

     -f file
	     Specify the control device of the wscons display to operate on.
	     Default is /dev/ttyCcfg.

     -h height
	     Sets the height of a font character in pixels.  Default is 16.

     -l	     Specifies to print out a list of loaded fonts, no other arguments
	     should be specified.

     -N name
	     Specifies a name which can be used later to refer to the font.
	     If none is given, the fontfile name is used to create one.

     -w width
	     Sets the width of a font character in pixels.  Default is 8.

     No font files are provided with the wscons framework.  The fonts
     installed by PCVT can be used instead, as can raw font files from other
     operating system distributions.

FILES
     /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/	   fonts directory.

EXAMPLES
     Load the IBM-encoded 8x8-font from the PCVT distribution.	This (or
     another 8x8-font) is necessary to use the 50-line screen type on vga(4)
     displays.

	   # wsfontload -N myname -h 8 -e ibm \
		   /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/vt220l.808

SEE ALSO
     wscons(4), wsconscfg(8), wsconsctl(8)

HISTORY
     The wsfontload program appeared in OpenBSD 2.8.

BUGS
     Many features are missing.

     There is no way to remove a loaded font.

OpenBSD 4.9			 May 31, 2007			   OpenBSD 4.9

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