Re: [fpc-pascal] Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.

2008-01-19 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:19 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Anthony W.Henry wrote: I really don't have to worry about the few Kilobytes it will add to the program file :). Anyone know any good GPL'd or Public Domain bit fonts ? Remember that you can easily preprocess it with RLL

Re: [fpc-pascal] ncurses extra package

2008-01-18 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:02 +0100, Guillermo Martínez Jiménez wrote: Hello everybody. Recently I asked myself if Free Pascal has support for ncurses and I've found it as an extra package. There is also an ncrt unit. If all your looking at is the ability to run the program on different

Re: [fpc-pascal] Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.

2008-01-18 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:47 +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Vinzent Hoefler wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have to be root ? Yes. Yes. /dev/mem should be

Re: [fpc-pascal] Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.

2008-01-18 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:32 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have to be root ?How do I make the 16 bit segment/offset address into a 32 bit pointer to access these fonts ? This font is not