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Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet & System 7 : Bugs?
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Date: 31 May 91 03:56:13 GMT
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In article <3602@wn1.sci.kun.nl>, lwj@cs.kun.nl (Luc Rooijakkers) writes:
> Ever since I installed System 7.0 on several of our Mac Plusses, I have
> experienced little problems with NCSA Telnet. The problems manifest
> themselves in two areas: fonts and option key remapping.
> 
> The only font that seems to work okay is Courier. All the others result
> in a wide window, with all characters being displayed as if they were
> about twice their width. Even the cursor gets this width, so I suspect
> there is a problem with Telnet calculating the maximum width of all
> the characters in a font. The characters themselves have their normal
> shape (i.e., not extra wide). Has anyone else seen this? How can I cure
> it?
> 
> Also, the remapping of Option to Ctrl (very useful on a Plus, if you
> also want to use Command shortcuts) doesn't work right anymore. The keys
> produce control codes nowhere near those they should produce. However,
> when I turn off Command keys, the Command combination *does* produce the
> right control code. Before System 7, this has always worked for me, both
> with Dutch and US versions of the system software.
> 
>......
> 
> -- 
> Luc Rooijakkers                                 Internet: lwj@cs.kun.nl
> Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science     UUCP: uunet!cs.kun.nl!lwj
> University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands         tel. +3180652271

I am successfully using BYU Telnet 2.3.4 with System 7.0 but have also had a
minor font problem.  Monaco 9pt works fine, as does Courier.  However, Monaco
12pt produces distorted characters, as if the bitmap font has not been installed
in the system.  When I replace the System 7.0 Monaco 12 bitmap font in my
system folder with the old System 6.07 version of the Monaco 12 bitmap font all
is back to normal.

John Traeger
Dept of Chemistry
La Trobe University
Bundoora, AUSTRALIA