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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 13:18:09 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Roland Glenn McIntosh <roland AT steeltorch DOT com>
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Subject: Re: vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation
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Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote:

> In short:
> What is the path of least resistance to improve the terminal emulation and character display in my cygwin shell window or rxvt?


In console, add 'codepage:oem' to your CYGWIN variable.

In rxvt, use a font that actually contains the box chars -- try "LuconP" 
from here:

http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/

For Xserver fonts, try these:
http://shelluser.net/~giles/bashprompt/xfonts/index.html

--Chuck




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