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>> I fixed this problem by changing from -fn 10x20 to -fn fixed or -fn
>> linux8x16.  These are smaller, however, and do not fill the whole window
>> (even when I run at 640).  What other fonts should I try?  There is no
>> linux10x20.   What I have is usable, no big deal.  10x20 might not be a
>> good default for bl2.
>>
>fonts are a huge and complex issue under Linux.  I think there are some
>font how to's that might help.  I'm still sorting these things out myself,
>so can't be of much help.  I do know that there is a 9x18 fixed font: have
>you tried that one? (i.e., -fn 9x18 -fb 9x18bold)  100 dpi as opposed to
>75 dpi fonts might be an issue here as well: I understand the system uses
>whichever it finds first in the font path specified in XF86Config.


Do you also have to specify the bold font used?  Steven's setup does not.
I will try adding -fb10x20 and see if that helps.  The links (that show up
double) are in bold. Thanks.  I sort of doubt that just changing 10x20 to
9x18 would fix anything.  In the meantime linux8x16 does work.  And I
could even set it to show more lines than 25.

>>
>> I tried to set up WORD 5.5 for DOS and the printer driver installation
>> does not work.  Setup is supposed to produce drivers ending in .prd from
>> the files in .pr$ (created when you run the downloaded .exe) and does not.
>> How do I convert these myself?  We were going to give a disk to the friend
>> with the broken Windows and ended up giving her Works instead today.
>>
>The .exe file just inflates the contents.  To install things, you have to
>run setup.exe within the folder where stuff was inflated.  Then, the dir
>"word" is created and all contents further inflated and installed, with
>legitimate extensions.  Sounds like maybe you didn't run the setup.exe,
>but only the wd55_ben.exe executable.
>

I ran setup.  Setup complained and would not install the printer drivers,
said it could not find them.  I was installing to floppy disk.  Running
the .exe creates 700K of *.pr$ files.  WORD itself wants *.prd files.
How would .pr$ normally be converted to *.prd?  Simply renaming did not
help.  There is a PRD to TXT conversion program that did not help as it
could not find any PRD files.  

I don't need to print WORD files but my friend does.  Did MS deliberately
cripple the program?  I also note that it expected to find the drivers in
\PRINT2\ but everything unpacked into a single directory and a few things
overwrote other things.  



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