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cyr - setup Cyrillic on Linux console

cyr [ options ]... [ keyboard [ keyboard_options ... ]]

cyr is a program for fast and easy setup of Cyrillic on the Linux console.

Display copying conditions and warranty information.
Display help information and exit.
Saves given parametes as default for latter use in ~/.cyr_defaults.
Be more verbose.
Use the given fontstyle (i.e. fontface) and fontsize. Type cyr --help to see possible fontstyle-fontsize combinations.
Use this fontfile. The options -s and -f get ingnored if this option is given. You will use this argument if you want to use font that is not directly supported by cyr.
Setup the Linux console for this encoding.
Setup Cyrillic in these consoles.
Use this keyboard and keyboard options.

cyr reads it defaults from ~/.cyr_defaults or (if the former file doesn't exist) from /etc/console-cyrillic.

Lines that contain only spaces or begin with `#' are simply ignored. All other lines should have the form

keyword parameters

Different keywords correspond to different arguments of cyr as follows:

`ttys terminals...' is equivalent to `--tty='terminals...''.

`style fontstyle' is equivalent to `--style=fontstyle'.

`size fontsize' is equivalent to `--size=fontsize'.

`encoding enc' is equivalent to `--encoding=enc'.

`fontfile fntfile' is equivalent ot `--font=fntfile'.

`layout kbd' specifies kbd as default keyboard to use.

`options opt...' specifies opt as default keyboard options.

Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>

JUN 2002 console-cyrillic