PC Screen Font

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The '''PC Screen Font''' format is a fixed-width bitmap font format originally used on the PC under MS-DOS. It was subsequently adopted and extended for Linux console fonts.
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The '''PC Screen Font''' ('''PSF''') format is a fixed-width bitmap font format originally used on the PC under MS-DOS. It was subsequently adopted and extended for Linux console fonts.
  
 
== Identification ==
 
== Identification ==
Files begin with bytes <code>0x36 0x04</code> (version 1) or <code>0x72 0xb5 0x4a 0x86</code> (version 2)
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Files begin with bytes {{magic|0x36 0x04}} (version 1) or {{magic|0x72 0xb5 0x4a 0x86}} (version 2).
  
 
== Specifications ==
 
== Specifications ==
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== Software ==
 
== Software ==
 
* [http://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/ PSF Tools]
 
* [http://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/ PSF Tools]
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== Sample files ==
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* [https://packages.debian.org/stable/console-setup-linux console-setup-linux package] → console-setup-linux_*.deb → /usr/share/consolefonts/*.psf.gz
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== Links ==
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* [[Wikipedia: PC Screen Font]]

Revision as of 21:21, 24 February 2016

File Format
Name PC Screen Font
Ontology
Extension(s) .psf
Released ~1989

The PC Screen Font (PSF) format is a fixed-width bitmap font format originally used on the PC under MS-DOS. It was subsequently adopted and extended for Linux console fonts.

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Identification

Files begin with bytes 0x36 0x04 (version 1) or 0x72 0xb5 0x4a 0x86 (version 2).

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