Hello all,

I recently installed Debian Linux, and am having some difficulty getting the ANSI going with the CP437 character set. I can't figure how to proceed to get IBM line drawings on my terminal, xterm.

Please help!

Doubleman

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Re: xterm and cp437
By: Doubleman to All on Fri Apr 06 2012 01:00 am

Hello all,

I recently installed Debian Linux, and am having some difficulty getting
the ANSI going with the CP437 character set. I can't figure how to proceed to get IBM line drawings on my terminal, xterm.

Please help!

use syncterm or qodem

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I recently installed Debian Linux, and am having some difficulty getting the ANSI going with the CP437 character set. I can't figure how to proceed to ge IBM line drawings on my terminal, xterm.

I had some limited success using Xterm in this manner with the DOSEMU VGA fonts. If it interests you I could take a gander at the arguments I was
using.

However, I still had idiosyncrasies with the terminal emulation on BBSes. I eventually gave in and used Syncterm instead.

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Re: xterm and cp437
By: Purple Nurple to Doubleman on Sat Apr 07 2012 05:56 pm

I had some limited success using Xterm in this manner with the DOSEMU VGA fonts. If it interests you I could take a gander at the arguments I was using.

However, I still had idiosyncrasies with the terminal emulation on BBSes.
I eventually gave in and used Syncterm instead.

there is a way to make it kinda sorta work with Xterm but just use syncterm or qodem instead

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Re: xterm and cp437
By: Doubleman to All on Fri Apr 06 2012 01:00 am

Hello all,

I recently installed Debian Linux, and am having some difficulty getting the ANSI going with the CP437 character set. I can't figure how to proceed to ge IBM line drawings on my terminal, xterm.

Please help!

Doubleman

Look for the "VGA" font. This works fine. forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-251975.html

Read the last post.

For the full screen framebuffer console,
I isse these two commands.

unicode_stop
setfont -m cp437 /lib/kbd/consolefonts/default8x16.psfu.gz

And Syncterm displays correctly.

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Re: xterm and cp437
By: Doubleman to All on Fri Apr 06 2012 01:00 am

Hello all,

I recently installed Debian Linux, and am having some difficulty getting
the ANSI going with the CP437 character set. I can't figure how to proceed to get IBM line drawings on my terminal, xterm.

Please help!

Try: echo -e "\033(U"

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Re: xterm and cp437
By: Doubleman to All on Fri Apr 06 2012 01:00:27

I recently installed Debian Linux, and am having some difficulty getting the ANSI going with the CP437 character set. I can't figure how to proceed to ge

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IBM line drawings on my terminal, xterm.

On a plain ol' xterm?

Install konsole
Install fizsh and make it your shell
(this won't do anything for getting ANSI, it's just a good shell)
Open konsole
Go to Settings
Edit Profile
Advanced tab
Default character encoding: IBM850
Bam.
You can save this as a separate profile just for bbsing.

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