Re: Re: Weird ASCII problem?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Tue Jul 21 2020 12:05 pm

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
 >
 >  >  Weird, it was set to auto-detect ANSI, but I forced it to ANSI, then
 >  >  set it back to auto-detect and now it's OK. Thanks for the tip.
 >
 >  DM> The issue you described was with your characters set (not sending CP437
 >  DM> characters) - separate from the terminal emulation (ANSI).
 >
 >  It's definitely strange. I get the "logging in as Poindexter Fortran"
 >  message in fixedsys, then it switches to a proportional looking font,
 >  looks like courier.

That sounds like the SyncTERM custom font support being controlled from
ctrl/fonts.ini:
http://wiki.synchro.net/config:fonts.ini

 > My logon1.ans, logon2.ans, logon3.ans files
 >  stopped displaying as well - maybe because it doesn't think it's an
 >  ANSI any more?

Do you have .asc or .msg equivalents of those files?

 >  In the terminal server log, I see a log entry that shows the terminal
 >  size/type set to 80x25 ANSI.

Cool. That's probably the auto-detected terminal configuration. You user
configuration can over-ride that.

                                            digital man

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