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Re: environment for viewing/creating ANSI art?



Andrew Cady <d@jerkface.net> wrote:

> The "dosemu" package includes the font that you want -- the very same
> one that came on the IBM-PC, with all the line-drawing glyphs and such.

vga

iirc, there's only one small size for it though (fine if you're used to
running X in 640x800 mode, but not useful for general purposes).

> The other problem is colors.  I know that the 'rxvt' xterm clone allows
> each ANSI color to be set to an arbitrary RGB value using X resources.

hmm - yes: it implements the control sequences that xterm does.
(regarding repainting - ymmv).

> I don't know what the proper settings are, but I would not be surprised
> if the dosemu documentation was helpful in this respect.  Unfortunately,
> rxvt does not support blinking.

xterm does

xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8
There's an faq at
	http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html
	ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net



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