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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: JRComm -- Text attributes?
Summary: special fonts
Message-ID: <791@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 04:11:05 GMT
References: <4639@orchid3.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <4639@orchid3.UUCP> king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King) writes:
>Well, this weekend I got the latest and greatest JRComm (1.01?) up an running
>on my machine.  Nice program, but I couldn't find a way to get text
>attributes (underline, boldface, etc) to work in vt100 or vt102 modes.
>[...]  Am I missing something ridiculously
>simple here, or is the program really crippled?

Do you have the fonts included with JR-Comm in your FONTS: directory?
I believe that these are required to get special text stuff (like reverse video
and underlining).  I've got them in my FONTS: directory, and everything works
fine.

>Also, is it just me or is the scrolling abysmal?  I've tried every

Hmm.  You must have something wrong.  I'm using JR-Comm in VT100 mode right
now (interlace screen, 2 colors), and it scrolls fine.

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