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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
