Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-10 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
cga2000 wrote: is there a howto (of sorts) anywhere? Not AFAIK. But xterm basically understands ansi sequences, so it should not be difficult to write a filter that would produce the picture by means of cat .ans |filter You could use either -- the special xterm mode which displays box

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-10 Thread cga2000
Thus spake Jan Willem Stumpel on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:06:20PM +0200 or thereabouts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-10 13:36]: cga2000 wrote: is there a howto (of sorts) anywhere? Not AFAIK. But xterm basically understands ansi sequences, so it should not be difficult to write a filter

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-09 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
You wrote: which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie ascii art)? Strange, I can't find such info in google, maybe I didn't use the right keywords... I think that the keyword you want is ansi art, not ascii art. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art This used

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-09 Thread cga2000
Thus spake Jan Willem Stumpel on Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:13:12PM +0200 or thereabouts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-09 14:03]: [..] I think that the keyword you want is ansi art, not ascii art. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art very interesting - will save this for times when I am

Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-08 Thread T
hi which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie ascii art)? Strange, I can't find such info in google, maybe I didn't use the right keywords... please help. thanks tong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:27:59PM -0400, T wrote: which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie ascii art)? Well, if you want to display ASCII, then every font known to man, basically, will display it. So ASCII art isn't the trouble. It's probably characters that are outside

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-08 Thread T
On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:31:27 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:27:59PM -0400, T wrote: which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie ascii art)? Well, if you want to display ASCII, then every font known to man, basically, will display it. So ASCII

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-08 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:46:31PM -0400, T wrote: On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:31:27 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:27:59PM -0400, T wrote: which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie ascii art)? Well, if you want to display ASCII, then

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-08 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:46:31PM -0400, T wrote: On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:31:27 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:27:59PM -0400, T wrote: which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie ascii art)? Well, if you want to display ASCII, then

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-08 Thread T
On Mon, 08 May 2006 21:39:46 +0200, Almut Behrens wrote: which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie ascii art)? [...] But still I am unable to view those PC graphics characters/symbols. The package xfonts-dosemu might be what you want (if I'm understanding you

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-08 Thread cga2000
Thus spake T on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:46:31PM -0400 or thereabouts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-08 20:05]: On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:31:27 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:27:59PM -0400, T wrote: which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie ascii

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-08 Thread T
On Mon, 08 May 2006 20:48:39 -0400, cga2000 wrote: Thus spake T on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:46:31PM -0400 or thereabouts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-08 20:05]: On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:31:27 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:27:59PM -0400, T wrote: which font is