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