Non-Pc Fonts; Unavailable Characters - Intermec PEN*KEY 6400 Programmer's Reference Manual

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Any combination of rows and columns are available, using the values listed
above.
The program, ROWCOL.EXE, can set screen size. Values can be entered at the
DOS command line; or entering no parameters, the program prompts you for the
values.
The following is an example of using command line parameters to set the screen
size for 18 rows and 20 columns.
ROWCOL 18 20
The following is an example of allowing the program to prompt for the values to
set the screen size to 12 rows and 32 columns. You enter the name of the
program, without any parameters. The program prompts you for the "Number of
rows"; and you respond with the value for the number of rows you want. The
program prompts you for the "Number of columns"; and you respond with the
value for the number of columns.
ROWCOL
Number of rows>12
Number of columns>32

Non-PC Fonts

The fonts for user-defined, non-PC, fonts are stored in upper flash. If you have
any of these fonts that need to be used, they must be downloaded each time the
screen size API is called; and must be done after the screen size is set. There is
an INT 10h API that can be used to replace any font. Set the following registers
and call INT 10h to accomplish this:
On entry:
AX = 1400h
BL = 00h
BH = number of bytes per character
CX = number of characters to store
DX = character offset into font of first character to store
ES:DI = address of start of user font table

Unavailable Characters

Several characters, from the upper 128 characters in the 255 character set (0x80
through 0x83), are unavailable for use, as well as several characters from the
character set between 00h through 20h. This also means that some of the
international characters are missing. These characters are dedicated for use
with the annunciators.
MISCTSR.EXE provides the use of different set of characters.
–F1 provides use of an alternate character set, which includes:
–F0 option restores the default character set, which consists of the following:
00h–06h, 09h, 0Bh, 0Fh, 1Ah, 1Bh, 7Fh, FEh, and FFh.
10h–16h, 1Ah, 1Bh, 1Eh, and 80h–84h.
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