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>Not at all. The font you see happens to be Lucida Console, which is
>a Unicode Truetype font. Perhaps if we had shown it in black on white
>you might have liked it better :-)
>In the GUI, you should be able to tell Kermit to use any fixed-pitch
>(monospace) Unicode font that is installed on your PC.
>When you say you want to use any old font you choose, do you really mean
it?
Okay, okay, you're way ahead of me! (:-)
No, I don't really want to use Times Roman or Beesknees in my terminal!
Actually my favorite is one I've carried around since my DEC days; it's
a Truetype version of the DECterm VT320 emulator font (also present on
most Unix systems as DEC-Terminal--*-*-etc.) I use it wherever I can...
Let me just say I certainly don't want to denigrate the usefulness of GUI
menus and dialogs (and not only for the novice). I use K95 daily, connecting
via Telnet to a Unix host, and I rarely go to the command screen; but when I
do, it's for things like resizing the window or clearing the scrollback
buffer,
which I would certainly prefer to do via mouse or menu or tollbar if I
could.
And of course if I could put my own macro on a button... (:-)
Anyway I'll hush up now and let you get back to work. You know the
results of your (pl.) labors are eagerly anticipated and will be widely
appreciated
so I don't have to say that (:-)