Nathan wrote:
> After much googling, I found a way to get the special ansi characters
> working properly on OS X, so that the text graphics are mostly showing
> up correctly.
>
> (If anyone else finds a simpler method than this, please let me know)
>
> 0. Install X11 from your installation DVD if you haven't already
>
> 1. Download an ANSI font (I chose sabvga.pcf) from here:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html
>
> 2. Place sabvga.pcf (or the other font you chose) in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> ( sudo mv sabvga.pcf  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc )
>
> 3. "cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" and run "sudo mkfontdir"
>
> 4. Fire up X11 in your Utilities folder (You'll have to restart it if
> it was already running)
>
> 5. Open an Xterm (or Terminal.app if you've already set it up to
> connect to X11 properly like I have)
How have you set up Terminal.app to connect to X11? I would like to learn.
>  and run:
>
> xterm -fn sabvga -bg black -fg green
>
> (substitute the font you chose if needed)  This launches the terminal
> with the ansi font and sets the background color to black like the bbs
> expects, and sets the foreground color to green.
>
> 6. Telnet in and enjoy!
>
> ~ Nathan
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