changing console fonts?

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On Thu, 5 May 2005, Aakin N. Patel wrote:

> : On Thu, 5 May 2005, Aakin N. Patel wrote:
> : > : Anyone know the magic that will let me change the console font size ?  I
> : > : want/need to change to 80x50 or 132x60 from the default 80x25.  setfont
> : > : seems to be related, but doesn't seem to make the change permanent.
> : >
> : > The consolechars command works pretty well.
> :
> : I don't seem to have that in RH/FC.  Which package is it a part of?
>
> Hrm.
>
> It's a part of the base install in Sorcerer. Debian seems to have it
> under a package called console-tools.
>
> Try doing a "man -k fonts |fgrep console". See what that turns up on
> redhat... I'd be curious to know. They may have created their own
> utility for it.

psfxtable            (1)  - handle Unicode character tables for console
fonts

that doesn't seem like the same thing to me.

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