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List:       linux-msdos
Subject:    Re: DOS block graphics on terminals
From:       Bart Oldeman <Bart.Oldeman () bristol ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2001-03-16 15:47:17
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Stephen Lee wrote:

> I am running Foxpro2.5/2.6 on DR-DOS under xdos (1.0.1.0). The block 
> graphics including horizontal and vertical lines display nicely. When I 
> login through a terminal (xterm, putty, Teraterm or hyperterm) the lines 
> are all converted to characters. Visually not as nice but everything 
> still works. Is there a setting to permit terminals to display block 
> graphics? I've tried all the term settings in dosemu.conf (ibm,latin) 
> without much success.

This primarily depends on the font you are using in the terminal program,
and _then_ also on the dosemu.conf settings. For instance, for xterm you
can get the vga font by starting it with.

xterm -font vga

There is a somewhat obsolete program called xtermdos, that does something
similar:

xterm -font vga -fb vga -geometry 80x25 -bg black -fg gray -T DOSEMU -n 
DOSEMU -e dos $*

But this starts dosemu straight away, and you probably want to telnet/ssh
first (if remote X is impossible, else just use xdos).

I don't know so much about putty and friends, but they should have some
font selection scheme available, I think.

Bart

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