On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:37:21PM -0500, Chris Roddy wrote: > Hi -- > > I would like to set up an environment on my Debian system that is > suitable for viewing and creating ANSI art, specifically the sort that > was popular on bulletin board systems in the 90's. > > Based on what I could find on Google, these are usually intended for the > so-called "extended ASCII" 8-bit character set that was used on IBM PC's > and compatible systems running DOS. (code page 437? please correct me if > I am wrong).
[...] > I haven't seen any problem with the escape sequences for character color > or cursor positioning, so I am led to believe that this is simply a > matter of finding the right combination of locale, character encoding, > and terminal or console font. > > If anyone has recommendations for configuration (or other software to > look into) I would be very grateful. 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. 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. 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
