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Thanks boss, no need for additional files, small size is still very advantageous.

The characters of the shadow in the wbat dialog box and the double horizontal lines of the title of the DOS startup menu are occupied by the font patterns, making it not beautiful.
It is suggested to add a function to exclude characters, for example, to exclude the characters of the shadow and the double horizontal lines of the menu title in the command line:
k.com /e111,222
Note: 111 and 222 represent the ASCII codes of certain characters

Originally posted by chishingchan at 2009-12-11 10:35:
The characters of the shadow in the wbat dialog box and the double horizontal lines of the title in the DOS boot menu are occupied by the font, making it unattractive.
It is suggested to add a function to exclude characters, such as excluding the characters of the shadow and the menu title in the command line...

This suggestion is good and creative. I will consider adding it. But there is no time at present. It may be possible only after the New Year, and it will also depend on the completion of the project at hand to make a decision. Thank you!

In addition, at present, the method of generating in segments and then splicing can also be considered. It is a bit troublesome, but this function can be realized without rewriting the program for the time being.

Oh, I've been working on it for a long time and still haven't succeeded! So depressed, is it because of my level?

I'm learning, and I'll practice it next. Thanks to the hard work of the original poster.

Top, I've been looking for a long time, tears are flowing

Can the EXE format be converted into the external program format of GRUB4DOS?

In this way, it should be usable in the menu of GRUB4DOS, heh heh.

Or is there any source code?

Please provide the specific part that needs to be translated. If you want the entire content translated, here it is:

Please look at the source code example of Luo Yunbin:

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CODE SEGMENT
ASSUME CS:CODE,DS:CODE
ORG 100H
START:
jmp install
; ........ 0000 0000 00h
; ..xxxxxx 0011 1111 3fh
; .x...... 0100 0000 40h
; .x.xxxxx 0101 1111 5fh
; .x.x..x. 0101 0010 52h
; .xxx.x.. 0111 0100 74h
; ....x.xx 0000 1011 0bh
; ...x.x.. 0001 0100 14h
; ..x.x..x 0010 1001 29h
; .x..x.x. 0100 1010 4ah
; .x..x..x 0100 1001 49h
; .x...x.. 0100 0100 44h
; .x....xx 0100 0011 43h
; ..xxxxxx 0011 1111 3fh
; ........ 0000 0000 00h
; ........ 0000 0000 00h

CHAR db 00h,3fh,40h,5fh,52h,74h,0bh,14h ;left part of phone
db 29h,4ah,49h,44h,43h,3fh,00h,00h

db 00h,0f8h,04h,0f4h,094h,5ch,0a0h,50h ;right part of phone
db 28h,0a4h,24h,44h,84h,0f8h,00h,00h

STRn db 'This is a phone:',0ceh,0cfh,'$'

install:
mov ax,1100h ;Function number
mov bx,1000h ;BH=10H, each character dot matrix is 16 bytes
mov cx,2 ;Total 2 bytes to load
mov dx,00ceh ;Start from 00CEH (00CEH, 00CFH)
push ds
pop es
mov bp,offset char ;ES:BP is the character dot matrix data address
int 10h

mov ah,9 ;Display characters ce, cf to see what it is!
mov dx,offset strn
int 21h
ret
CODE ENDS
END START

Oh, I see. I understand. Thank you.

I did a small test by myself.

It's possible to display Chinese in the GRUB4DOS environment without loading fonts. Hehe. I'll organize it further. Currently, it's just manually modifying the memory test.

Try this out! It would be even better under DOS with this!

Still not very懂 how to use it. Learned it.