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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:52:38 -0500
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From:	Roland Glenn McIntosh <roland AT steeltorch DOT com>
Subject:	vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation
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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 long:
I use a commercial package for SSH called SecureCRT which comes with some fonts called "vt100" that have those nice ncurses line drawing characters in them.  It also has what I assume to be the equivalent of a termcap entry for "linux."  I am trying to get away from it however.

I tried to use 'rxvt -reverseVideo -fn "Terminal" -e bash' and run the ncurses-tests in /usr/bin/ncurses-test-dll/ and was unsatisfied with the results.  I tried several other fixed width fonts that were by default on my system.  I also tried just the regular cygwin.bat's terminal.

Perhaps someone has gotten cygwin shell or rxvt to emulate a linux terminal or xterm better before and can save me some headache?

Thank you.
-Roland


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