Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:37:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Karl Martens <martensk AT telusplanet DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DOS System font
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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Karl Martens wrote:

>     I'm writing a little graphics program and I want to blit some text to
> the screen.  I would much rather use the built in DOS font as to design my
> own.  If you know the memory location of this font, I would appreciate your
> input.

It is not a constant address, but there's a function of Int 10h to get 
the address.  I suggest to download v2/djlsr201.zip from the same place 
you get DJGPP and look at the function _set_screen_lines in the file 
conio.c.  It uses this technique to get to the system font (and change 
it).