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From: wong@llama.rtech.UUCP (J. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm and box graphics
Message-ID: <2165@rtech.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 18:16:54 GMT
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Reply-To: wong@llama.UUCP (J. Wong)
Organization: Relational Technology, Inc. Alameda, CA
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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?


Only the "vtsingle" font supports the graphic characters.  That is,
you are using a font that does not have these graphic characters
defined.
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