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- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Scrambled fonts anyone?
- Message-ID: <5774@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 07:58:49 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.015006.26428@umr.edu> <q+snt5b.harp@netcom.com>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
- Lines: 16
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- In article <q+snt5b.harp@netcom.com> harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
- dminer@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes:
- >Suggestion to the person who wrote/maintains the 'setterm' program:
- >Please add such a reset feature to your program. Perhaps it already
- >has one, but since I don't have a man page for it (nor can I find one)
- >I haven't found it. 'setterm -reset' and 'setterm -initialize' don't
- >solve the problem.
-
- If this is talking about going from graphics character mode back to text
- mode, setterm will do this if the appropriate entry is included in the
- termcap file. I did this in the termcap included in MCC interim version
- 0.97p2 -- at least it works for me -- but you may be using another termcap
- file. If you have mine, try 'setterm -reset'.
-
- -- Owen
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-