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Enables Windows operating systems to display an extended character set in graphics mode. If used without parameters,graftabl displays the previous and the current code page.
Important
Thegraftabl command is a legacy command, and therefore outdated. It is normally not installed in modern Windows versions. Please see thechcp page for codepage handling.
graftabl <codepage>graftabl /status| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
<codepage> | Specifies a code page to define the appearance of extended characters in graphics mode. Valid code page identification numbers are:
|
| /status | Displays the current code page being used by this command. |
| /? | Displays help at the command prompt. |
Thegraftabl command affects only the monitor display of extended characters of the code page that you specify. It doesn't change the actual console input code page. To change the console input code page, use themode orchcp command.
Each exit code and a brief description of it:
| Exit code | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | Character set was loaded successfully. No previous code page was loaded. |
| 1 | An incorrect parameter was specified. No action was taken. |
| 2 | A file error occurred. |
You can use the ERRORLEVEL environment variable in a batch program to process exit codes that are returned bygraftabl.
To view the current code page used bygraftabl, type:
graftabl /statusTo load the graphics character set for code page 437 (United States) into memory, type:
graftabl 437To load the graphics character set for code page 850 (multilingual) into memory, type:
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