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From: avr@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm and box graphics
Summary: It depends on the font
Message-ID: <4184@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 88 02:35:30 GMT
References: <8806110702.AA27326@gr.ardent.com<
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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In article <8806110702.AA27326@gr.ardent.com<, mlp@ardent.UUCP (Mark Patrick) writes:
< The VT100 supports a special character set for constructing simple vertical
< and horizontal lines.  These are often used in laying out simple forms for
< data entry.  It appears that the xterm terminal emulator supports the
< escape sequnece to select this alternate character set but does not
< actually display these charcaters.  Does anyone know if this is correct or 
< am I doing something wrong?

You are using a font without the line drawing character set.
Use xfd to find a font that has line drawing characters, and
use xterm with this font. It works fine - I've used it with
several programs that expect it.
				Adam Reed (mtgzz!avr)