Hi JP, I have a font that I think is what you are after, called VGA. It's actually a lot more readable that a lot of the standard X fonts, IMHO, but of course doesn't display all of the characters properly (I used to use it as my font for mutt in an Eterm). On my system, it's: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga.pcf if you do an xlsfonts|grep vga, you may already have it. I seem to recall having found it on the net somewhere originally, so you could try searching on google. This is only an X font, I don't know of any equivalent for the console. HTH, damon Quoth J.P. Larocque, > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up Falken, a BBS program for Linux. It excessively uses > "ANSI graphics," in other words, ASCII text graphics done with characters from > the Code Page 437 character set, with ANSI coloring. CP-437 is the same > character set DOS uses and sometimes known as the IBM PC character set. > > My problem is Linux seems to use the Latin-1 character set, both on the > console, and in xterms. Therefore ANSI graphics look corrupted, in both > Falken, as well as viewing ANSI files (*.ans) and calling dial-up BBSs that > make use of CP-437 (as most do) from minicom. How can I either start an xterm > with the CP-437 character set, or set the console font for CP-437? > > As for console fonts, I can't find anything suitable in > /usr/share/consolefonts/. Could anyone suggest a place to download CP-437 > console fonts? > > As for xterms, I know about the '-fn' option, but I don't know how to find > what fonts I have available in X. As I'm sure you all can tell, I don't know > much about X. =) I would certainly prefer finding a way to use CP-437 in > an xterm than in the console, as I mostly use X. > > DOSEMU's 'xdos' uses the correct font but I don't know if the font is part of > X--and therefore accessible to xterm--or proprietary to xdos. > > I should note that I still use slink. It's hard to upgrade when your Internet > connection is a 14.4kbps modem. > > Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who can reply with information. > > -- > J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha > piranha@mindless.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > > -- Damon Muller (dm-sig6@empire.net.au) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) -
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