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- From: lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
- Subject: Re: Porting `gopher' 1.1 client to AIX 3.2
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:17:32 GMT
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- In <BzvA71.A4G@news.cso.uiuc.edu> d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) writes:
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- >I am having some trouble porting the `gopher' 1.1 client to AIX 3.2.
-
- >1) Sometimes `gopher' ignores all keyboard input and the session must
- > be killed.
-
- Don't know about this one...
-
- >2) Line-drawing characters are not always drawn correctly. Such characters
- > are displayed by the Shift-O options menu.
-
- I do know about this one...
-
- > a) On a PC, IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 with VT100 emulation works.
- > b) On a PC, IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 with VT320 emulation works.
- > c) On an Xstation, "aixterm -e gopher" gives the output below.
- > Reverse and bold attributes are not shown here.
-
- aixterm is sortof dain-bramaged. It doen't do extended characters
- properly..
-
- > d) On an Xstation, "xterm -e gopher" gives the output below.
- > Reverse and bold attributes are not shown here.
- > Also, lower-case letters in the option names, such as "Pager Command"
- > are displayed as faces, suits, arrows, and other silly characters.
-
- Sounds like you're not using an ISO font, sounds to me like you're
- using one of those dreadful PC fonts :-)
-
- Unfortunatly I haven't found a portable way to do character graphics
- across platforms..
- --
- | Paul Lindner | lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu | Slipping into madness
- | | Computer & Information Services | is good for the sake
- | Gophermaster | University of Minnesota | of comparision.
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