document the screen types recently added, and use the term "former" when
referring to pcvt(4)
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.\" $NetBSD: vga.4,v 1.2 2000/05/13 15:22:19 mycroft Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: vga.4,v 1.3 2000/07/25 17:22:02 drochner Exp $
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.Dd March 20, 1999
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.Os
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.Dt VGA 4
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colors to be displayed. In exchange, it can access two
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fonts at the same time, so that 512 different characters
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can be displayed.
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.It 80x40
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A text mode with 80 colums and 40 rows. Similar to the
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standard mode, 16 colors and 256 characters are available.
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Characters are 8 x 10 pixels large. For this mode to be useful,
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a font of that character size must be downloaded.
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.It 80x40bf
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is analogously to
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.Dq 80x25bf
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a version with 512 displayable characters but 8 colors only.
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.It 80x50
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A text mode with 80 colums and 50 rows. Similar to the
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standard mode, 16 colors and 256 characters are available.
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is analogously to
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.Dq 80x25bf
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a version with 512 displayable characters but 8 colors only.
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.It 80x24
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is a variant of the
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.Dq 80x25
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screen type which displays 24 lines only. It uses the standard 8x16 VGA font.
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This mode might be useful for applications which depend on closer
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.Tn DEC VT100
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compatibility.
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.It 80x24bf
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Analogously, like
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.Dq 80x24
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but with 512 character slots and 8 colors.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Tn IBM
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type and ISO-8859-1 encoded fonts. As an experimental feature, the
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.Dq higher half
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fonts of the NetBSD/i386
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.Xr pcvt 4
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fonts of the former NetBSD/i386 pcvt(4)
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driver distribution can be used too if the kernel option
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.Dq WSCONS_SUPPORT_PCVTFONTS
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was set at compile time. This is only useful with the
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device will naturally not support colors at all, but
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offer the capability to display underlined characters instead.
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The
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.Dq 80x25bf
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and
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.Dq 80x25bf ,
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.Dq 80x40bf ,
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.Dq 80x50bf
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and
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.Dq 80x24bf
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screen types will not be available. This mode of operation
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is not tested.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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