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<title>chrcvt65 Users Guide
<author><url url="mailto:polluks@sdf.lonestar.org" name="Stefan A. Haubenthal">

<abstract>
chrcvt65 is the vector font converter. It is able to convert a foreign font into
the native format.
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<sect>Overview<p>

chrcvt65 is a vector font converter. It is able to convert a "BGI Stroked
Font" to a compact TGI native vector font. See the function <url
url="funcref.html#tgi_load_vectorfont" name="tgi_load_vectorfont"> for usage.



<sect>Usage<p>

The chrcvt65 utility converts the font of one Borland file to its cc65 equivalent.


<sect1>Command line option overview<p>

The program may be called as follows:

<tscreen><verb>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Usage: chrcvt65 [options] file [options] [file]
Short options:
  -h                    Help (this text)
  -v                    Be more verbose
  -V                    Print the version number and exit

Long options:
  --help                Help (this text)
  --verbose             Be more verbose
  --version             Print the version number and exit
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
</verb></tscreen>


<sect1>Command line options in detail<p>

Here is a description of all the command line options:

<descrip>

  <tag><tt>-v, --verbose</tt></tag>

  Increase the converter verbosity.


  <tag><tt>-h, --help</tt></tag>

  Print the short option summary shown above.


  <tag><tt>-V, --version</tt></tag>

  Print the version number of the utility. When submitting a bug report,
  please include the operating system you're using, and the compiler
  version.
</descrip>


<sect>Input and output<p>

The converter will read one CHR file per invocation and write the font
in TCH format to a new file.

Example output for the command
<tscreen><verb>
chrcvt65 --verbose LITT.CHR
</verb></tscreen>
<tscreen><verb>
BGI Stroked Font V1.1 - Aug 12, 1991
Copyright (c) 1987,1988 Borland International
</verb></tscreen>



<sect>Copyright<p>

chrcvt65 is (C) Copyright 2009, Ullrich von Bassewitz. For usage of the
binaries and/or sources the following conditions apply:

This software is provided 'as-is', without any expressed or implied
warranty.  In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:

<enum>
<item>  The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
        claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
        in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
        appreciated but is not required.
<item>  Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not
        be misrepresented as being the original software.
<item>  This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
        distribution.
</enum>

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