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From: "Ryan Underwood" <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>
To: dperry.geo@yahoo.com
Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Virtual Modems on dosemu (cp437 in linux console)
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 01:00:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030306010008.E313D75387@mail.icequake.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030305175241.84320.qmail@web13905.mail.yahoo.com


> > Newer Linux kernels are ISO-8859-1 codepage by
> > defeault.  You must explicitly
> > set the codepage with:  charset G0 cp437
> > in a virtual console that you want to use IBM
> > characters in.  If you want
> > to use cp437 (IBM) character set in a X terminal,
> > you must install the VGA
> > font (vga.pcf) and tell the terminal to use it when
> > you run it (typically
> > with -fn vga or -font vga).
> 
> I don't typically run the BBS in an X window, so that
> is not much concern to me.  However, I would be
> interested in knowing how to specify the proper
> codepage in a VC.  Can you tell me how to do that?

If you're using the newer console-tools:
$ charset G0 cp437

There is a different method that I can't remember for the old console-tools.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253

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