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You didn't eat the whole toblerone yesterday, did you?
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Ali wimpering (Audio)[^], with or without an 'h'.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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It's remarkably accurate! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Oh and don't you start with your BOGOF Chocolate Eclairs ... my self control is stretched to the limit today. 
Repeats: *must not eat chocolate* *must not eat chocolate* *must not eat chocolate*
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Éclairs? The proper ones? With Choux Pastry? And Cream? And thick plain chocolate? Mmmmm....
Sounds good!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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*Ali drools*
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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DeathByChocolate wrote: Oh and don't you start with your BOGOF Chocolate Eclairs
I haven't had any myself for a while now. Since my bout of incapacity back in February I haven't easily been able to get to Tesco.
All I have is some plain choccy suggestives.
BTW: Have you seen any of the recent TV progs about ChoccyWoccyDoodah[^].
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Henry Minute wrote: All I have is some plain choccy suggestives.
Would you give me one? 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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DeathByChocolate wrote: Would you give me one?
You have but to ask and we could have a dunking party.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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I've just had a great idea: a dunking competition!
That's my kind of Olympics! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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I've heard of a two ring circus but a two ring Olympics?
Although, the more that I think about it the more it appeals. 
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Henry next week lets have a dunk-a-thon. Each person has to dunk there biscuit of choice into their hot beverage of choice as many times as possible.
Most dunks wins!
(PS Have I gone totally barmy?  )
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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I'm always up for a dunk-a-thon!
DeathByChocolate wrote: (PS Have I gone totally barmy?
Any reduction is to be commended.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Yes, fonts existed, just mostly they only worked on printers, so you had no idea what your printout was actually going to look like! There were some WYSIWYG packages - I seem to remember 123 had a WYSIWYG mode, and Samna Word had a graphics based Print Preview, but was character based for the input.
But well before DOS fonts existed - I remember writing character generator editors for embedded VDTs, and you could get special character set balls and chains for typewriters and printers.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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The later DOS versions of 123 actually looked better than the appalling travesty when they made it Win3 compatible.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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DOS 123 was a superb spreadsheet - just the windows version was a lash up, and that let Excel in. And it was so, so, much better! Of the whole Office package, it's the only app I really like.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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OriginalGriff wrote: DOS 123
NO.
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Back in the day, text mode had fonts that were unchangeable and supplied by the OEM.
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They are around since Gutenberg.
(You know we Dinos are rather dumb).
Veni, vidi, vici.
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IIRC in the early days fonts were an application issue, the OS wasn't involved. So you installed WordPerfect and possibly added some extra fonts to it, which did no good to the next application that tried to be WYSIWYGy.
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I remember using DIP switches in the printer to choose the font, does that count?
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So It's pre-jurassic!
It's truly interesting to know these things existed. thanks for the info.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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VuNic wrote: May be any old word "package" supported fonts in DOS ? 
Yes, I remember WordPerfect 5 having its own font system.
Things got better with the HP LaserJet III, with its built-in "scalable fonts". LaserJets could also accept a font cartidge.
When Windows 3 came out two of the most common types of product were screen savers and font packages -- I have two set of Star Trek fonts, they still work in Windows 7.
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In the beginning of the MS-DOS era, each application included its own mechanism for managing fonts. Font support was often dependent on the printer you were using. Toward the end they were starting to standardize on things like Adobe Type Manager. Windows, of course, made it easy for applications to use fonts through TrueType.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Oh, there surely was a concept of fonts back then. Trouble was, you really couldn't see an accurate representation of a document, unless you had one of those fancy WYSIWYG programs. Back in those days, we had 40x25 monochrome text mode displays and we were thankful for that, because some people were less fortunate. We also had to walk uphill to the computer lab. Both ways.
Unless maybe you're talking about changing the bitmaps your display adapter used, which was supported in only some display adapters. Hercules comes to mind as supporting programmable fonts, as well as EGA and VGA cards. Some text mode games used this to great effect. I think the "MS DOS Shell" did it as well.
There was also support for different console fonts in Linux (setfont) and QNX (cfont).
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