.\" @(#)man/man8/mapscrn.8 1.0 3/19/93 17:04:00 .TH MAPSCRN 8 "20 March 1993" "Local" "International Support" .SH NAME mapscrn \- load screen output mapping table .SH SYNOPSIS .B mapscrn [ .I -o map.orig ] .I mapfile .SH DESCRIPTION The .I mapscrn command loads a user defined output character mapping table into the console driver. The console driver may be later put into .B use user-defined mapping table mode by outputting a special escape sequence to the console device. This sequence is .I (K for the .B G0 character set and .I )K for the .B G1 character set. When the .I -o option is given, the old map is saved in .I map.orig. .SH "OPERATION" The .I mapscrn command can read the map in either of two formats: .br 1. 256 byte binary data .br 2. two-column text file .br Format (1) is is an image of translation .I table. Any time a character with the code .I i is output to the console device, the character with the code .I table[i] appears on the screen. Format (2) is used to fill the .I table as follows: cell with offset mentioned in the first column is filled with the value mentioned in the second column. .PP Values in the file may be specified in one of four .B formats: .br .B 1. Decimal: string of decimal digits not beginning with '0' .br .B 2. Octal: string of octal digits beginning with '0' .br .B 3. Hexadecimal: string of hexadecimal digits preceded by "0x" .br .B 4. Character: Single character enclosed in single quotes. Note that blank, comma, tab character and '#' cannot be specified with the 4th format. .PP Note that control characters ( with codes < 32) cannot be re-mapped with .I mapscrn because they have special meaning for the driver. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR setfont (8) .SH AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1993 Eugene G. Crosser .br .br This software and documentation may be distributed freely.