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Subject: Re: more
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Date: 24 Jul 89 03:28:21 GMT
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I like to thank Deborah Swanberg for sending me the following note
which I am resending to netland for the perusal of others.

--------------------Original Message------------------------------------
From: Deborah Swanberg <deborah@citi.umich.edu>
To: GBOPOLY1%NUSVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU, <APOLLO@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU>,
Date: 21 Jul 1989 10:41 EDT
Subject: Re: More

    From: fclim  <@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:GBOPOLY1@NUSVM.BITNET>
    To: One ADU to another <UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU!APOLLO>
    Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 16:56:23 SST
    Subject: Re: More

    "More" pulls the shell pad into a vt100 which uses the
    /sys/dm/fonts/vt100l font.  So does vi.  What I did was:
        % pushd /sys/dm/fonts
        % /com/chn vt100l -y   # rename vt100l as vt100l.yy.mm.dd
        % ln -s vt100l.b vt100l
        % popd
    Now my vi is "brighter" because it is using a bold font.


This requires administrative control. Individual users can have
control over their own vi fonts.  To give credit, here's a message
from long long ago.

    From: bts%sas%rti.uucp@mcnc.org
    To: umix.cc.umich.edu!apollo
    Date: 31 Jul 88 05:58:19 GMT
    Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
    Subject: Re: Reprogramming the function keys on the vt100 emulator

    ...If a local font
    is available with the name vt100s, vt100 will use that rather then then one
 in
    /sys/dm/fonts.  With the way vt100 works in sr9.7, if you start up one vt100
    session and then end it, the next session will use the same font as the
    previous (now ended) session, unless you sigp the vt100_server.  (This was
    done so that later vt100's fire up super-fast.)  That way, you can start up
    later vt100's in any directory you want, so long as you earlier fired up one
    in a directory with the "vt100s" font you want.

    ... {stuff deleted}

    (I might note parenthetically at this point that I am a user rather than an
    administrator.  I believe I'm a fairly knowledgable user, but I lack the
    [moral if not technical] authority to change /sys/dm/fonts anyway.)

    --Brian,
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Deborah Swanberg

Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)
University of Michigan
2901 Hubbard
Ann Arbor, MI  48105
313-998-7479

deborah@citi.umich.edu

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