modecon

Controls the display driver.

   MODECON CODEPAGE
   MODECON CODEPAGE REFRESH
   MODECON CODEPAGE PREPARE ([,]...n) <file>
   MODECON CODEPAGE SELECT nnn

Usages

   CODEPAGE
   Shows the active codepage and many more information about the current
   status of DISPLAY and the codepage buffers

   CODEPAGE REFRESH
   Refreshes the active codepage to hardware (in case it has been 
   accidentaly destroyed)

   CODEPAGE PREPARE ([,]...n) <file>
   Prepare codepage nnn from file
   You use the commas to specify which buffer of DISPLAY you want to fill
   (for example, (,,850) to fill the third buffer).
   The format of the files is a RAW file until version 0.09 of DISPLAY, and
   a regular CPI file from 0.10 onwards.

   CODEPAGE SELECT nnn
   Activates a previously prepared codepage.

Notes

CODEPAGE can be abbreviated to CP PREPARE can be abbreviated to PREP SELECT can be abbreviated to SEL

Codepages

These are the basic set of codepages available as RAW files with MODECON/DISPLAY:
CPxxx Label
437 DOS United States 850 DOS Latin-1, multilingual 852 DOS Latin-2, multilingual with Euro 858 DOS Latin-1, multilingual with Euro 860 DOS Portugal 863 DOS Canadian French 865 DOS Nordic
Note: Cp858 provides the Euro sign in place of the small dotless "i" found in cp850. All the rest between them is the same.

See Also

display chcp graftabl


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