CPI

File Format
Name	CPI
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Fonts CPI
Extension(s)	.cpi

CPI is a file format describing DOS code page fonts.

There is also a compressed "DRFONT" variant.

FreeDOS MODE also supports CPX files in addition to CPI; they are CPI files compressed with UPX as if they were COM files.

Identification

Normal uncompressed files begin with 0xff "FONT   ".

DRFONT files begin with 0x7f "DRFONT ".

Software

• PSF Tools
  • cpi2psf, psfs2cpi - Read, write
  • cpicomp, cpidcomp - Compress, decompress
  • cpitest - Dump information about the file (not normally installed)

Links

• CPI file format in Ralf Brown's: #01758, #01759, #01760, #01761, #01762, #01763, #01761, #01765