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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: MSDOS Kermit and Unix Lynx and Greek ELOT 928 Fonts
Date: 27 Mar 1998 15:33:44 GMT
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In article <6ffqi5$5tb@enews4.newsguy.com>,
Vasos Panagiotopoulos +1-917-287-8087 Bioengineer-Financier <vjp2@dorsai.org @smtp.dorsai.org> wrote:
: I have successfully read Greek from Lynx on Windows using the
: Courier New Greek font from www.hri.org/fonts about two years ago -
: (yet it did not work with the www.goarch.org Greek pages - at least
: not back then - and they told me that since it worked with Windows,
: they weren't going to bother). But I have never succeeded in doing
: this with DOS and MSKermit.
:
MS-DOS Kermit has no built-in support for Greek. You would need to find
and load a Greek code page that agrees with the host encoding, and then
use "set terminal character set transparent".
: Where would I be able to find the
: standard IBM codepage in the USA (preferably on the web)?
:
Good question. If you find an answer, please be sure to post it.
By the way, Kermit 95 does support Greek: both ELOT 927 and 928.
- Frank