Re: "LisaBBS" / Who knows Lisa font formats?

How much of this code is dependent on LisaOS? Something like this ported to Raspbian and Free Pascal might be a good thing to add to my simulator project.

On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 8:42:10 PM UTC-4, Tom Stepleton wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wrote a program that lets you download files from the Workshop using
> your favorite terminal program and YMODEM. It's still pretty buggy, but you
> can check it out anyway (source only):
>
> https://github.com/stepleton/lisabbs
>
> I've only tried it on a Lisa 1 running Workshop 1.0. No idea what it does
> on other systems.
>
> Anyway, I used this to download an interesting-looking file named
> "font.lib" (you can see it listed in the "screenshot"). I thought I'd try
> to see if I could visualize fonts inside the file, but I'm giving up now :-)
>
> I'd still love to see the fonts, though.
>
> I've been able to determine that font.lib is an archive (like ar or tar
> makes) containing a few dozen individual files with names like
> CENTURY24RPH.F, which certainly look like good names for font files. There
> seem to be several types of files, distinguished by the letter before the
> .F, which is either W (probably information about fonts for particular
> kinds of printers), H, S, or T (don't know about these). I don't have any
> good guesses for what W, H, S, and T could stand for, either.
>
> My efforts to get anything that looks like letterforms out of these
> individual file records have all failed so far. With the exception of the W
> files, it seems the files may be lightly compressed somehow, but I'm not
> sure how.
>
> Does anyone know more about these "files" or their format, or what kind of
> compression might have been used for important system resources like fonts?
> RLE is a candidate, but I'm not sure about that. Huffman coding might work,
> too...
>
> More details when I have more time to write,
> --Tom
>

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