DIRECTIONS FOR CREATING A 40-LINE FONT USING THE VGAMAX FONT UTILITIES,
AND INSTALLING IT USING VGAMAX:



CREATING THE FONT
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        1.      start out at the DOS prompt.

        2.      install VGAMAX like this:  VGAMAX /N1

        3.      press Ctrl-Alt-6 to switch to VGA 50-line mode (or EGA
                43-line mode).

        4.      run GRABFONT to snag the font:  GRABFONT ROM.F8

        5.      run FED to edit the font:  FED ROM.F8

        6.      press [F4] to change to size of the font.

        7.      press the [up] arrow twice (so that the new point size
                is 10).

        8.      press [Enter].  FED will instantly turn the font into a
                40-line font (10-point font), and will even make the box
                characters look right.

        9.      press [F2] to save the new font.

        10.     type in a name for the font (40LINE.FNT or whatever.  I
                use the convention where I give an eight-letter name to
                the font and use an extension of "F" and the point size
                of the font, so I personally would call the font ROM.F10
                or something).

        11.     now press [ESC] to get out of FED.

        12.     uninstall VGAMAX:  VGAMAX /U



INSTALLING THE FONT
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        1.      install VGAMAX however you want, but make sure you load
                the 40-line font you just created into one of the font
                banks.

        2.      now use this command:  VGAMAX /A<z>
                where <z> is the bank you loaded the 40-line font into.
                note that you could also just tack on /A<z> to the end
                of the command line you used when you installed VGAMAX
                in step 1.

        3.      now, whenever a program tries to switch to 50-line mode,
                VGAMAX will activate your 40-line font.  this may cause
                conflicts with some applications that expect to actually
                get 50 lines, but many applications that can use more
                than 25 lines are intelligent enough to ask the video
                card how many lines there are.
