[prog] can ncurses change screen fonts?

Yaroslav Fedevych jaroslawfd at ukrpost.net
Mon Feb 2 13:38:41 EST 2004


ed orphan wrote:
> I'm writting a simple ncurses program for use
> on the command line. Does ncurses have any
> routines for changing the screen font? I'd
> like bigger printing for both my screen display
> and the user's input. 
> If ncurses doesn't have the ability to change
> screen fonts, is there another way? 
> I used to be able to do this in DOS with
> some x86 assembly.  If I have to, I'll use
> assembly if someone can give me a hint
> what to do in Linux.

Probably this is not done with ncurses, as it's very system- and 
terminal-dependent (not everyone uses VGA or compatible things). How it 
is done should be looked up in the documentation of your kernel.


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