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PDP-8:
Before I request that the busybox SETFONT application be added to TinyCore, I'm testing the following project..

Objective: my *console* fonts are butt-ugly, no matter what size I configure them to.  So I want to use the Terminus console fonts in the console for say virtual terminals, or in micro-core.

This is not about X, where I am already happily running Terminus fonts.

Tools gathered:
1) Since the SETFONT application is not part of TinyCore, I downloaded the latest binary for it from the official Busybox site.

2) I am successfully using Terminus console fonts in Porteus, so I grabbed the console fonts I used from it (from a slackware package actually) - just to make sure that I didn't blow it with some error in my own compilation attempts from the official Terminus fonts site.

When running the following, I get an error (as a normal user or as root)


--- Code: ---setfont ./ter-132n.pcf.gz
--- End code ---

Here is the error:


--- Code: ---setfont: input file : Bad length or unsupported font type
--- End code ---

I get this same error when ungzipping the font as just an uncompressed pcf file.

I'm pretty sure that pcf is a supported font type with Tinycore.  Or is there some sort of terminal configuration in the kernel itself, like terminal=linux or something that is the blocker?

I don't know since I'm not a kernel hacker..

To be able to run Terminus console fonts with Tinycore (remember my terminus fonts in X are doing fine) would just rock my world since I consider my standard fonts in the console, no matter how I configure them for size, are too ugly for comfort.

Any tips appreciated....

PDP-8:
This is not looking good me - perusing an arch bug report from 10 years ago about patches to busybox's setfont...

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19109

It may not be valid these days, but unless someone else has Terminus console fonts running in TinyCore, I'm throwing in the towel  *right now*  :)

Rich:
Hi PDP-8
There is a  setfont.tcz  extension in the repository.

PDP-8:
Thanks Rich!

That will save me a lot of headache trying to get the busybox version to work.  Heh, would be nice if it did.  Wonder when setfont.tcz was built and if setfont has been fixed in busybox since..

I'll make the request for a 64-bit version since I don't see it on any of the repo's..

curaga:
pcf is an X font. Console fonts are .psf or .psfu.

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