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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
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Subject: Re: So, how's the GUI version coming?
Date: 4 Nov 1998 15:49:03 GMT
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In article <364069e9.0@news.ic.net>, Michael Kairys <kairys@mi.sl.com> wrote:
:
:
: >You can get a pretty good idea from:
: >
: > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/kuishots.html
:
:
: Well, Frank, if you're willing to reply to one more post... (:-)
: The main reason I would like a GUI version is to get control of the
: fonts used in the terminal window. It looks from the screenshots
: like that's not what you have in mind; they make it look like it will
: be the same Console window running in a GUI framework.
:
: I've never liked the two fonts available to the DOS console and I've
: been hoping GUI Kermit would allowme to use any old font I choose...
:
:
Well, I think that I will respond to this one. The issues regarding
fonts have less to do with Console vs. GUI then Monospaced vs.
Proportional spaced characters. You can replaced the font used
in the DOS Windows with any font of your choice as long as the font
is a monospaced font. (? What font do you currently use? )
I have found both LucidaConsole and Monotype.com to be excellent fonts
for terminal emulations. The reason the GUI is such a necessity is that
in Win95/98 the console display is limited to characters from a single
PC Code Page which means that we can't accurately display the terminal
specific graphics characters or mix characters from seperate 8-bit
character sets as we can do on NT. We can support the entire Unicode
range on NT because the console environment supports Unicode.
If your desire is to use proportionally spaced fonts in a monospaced
environment, our GUI will allow it, but the screen gets pretty ugly
as the fixed grid nature of terminal emulation is not designed for
characters that are wider than a space.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org