Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!gatech!mcnc!rti!sas!bts From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Reprogramming the function keys on the vt100 emulator Message-ID: <577@sas.UUCP> Date: 26 Jul 88 21:38:28 GMT Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC Lines: 33 [tried EMail, with typical luck. Probably of general interest anyway.] [the poster complained, among other things, of not being able to get vt100 to use other fonts.] I am, even as I write, looking at vt100 running with a font designed by three people (including myself) here (it's a 6x10 font, by the way--would anybody else find such a size useful? it's as big as std.19l is on a 300, when displayed on a 3000). Anyway, what you do is to start up your first vt100 session in a direcotry with a font called "vt100s" (in my case, this is simply a link) that contains the font you want the emulator to use. Due to the weeirrd way that vt100 now works, this will cause all further vt100 emulators in your session (until you sigp vt100_server) to use the same font . . . note that vt100 does reverse video by merely reversing the pixels (without painting a reversed background first), so you must create a font that has no spacing between characters but instead has white space within all of the characters. This in turn is an incredible pain in the rear with the stupid font editor (no global operations at all), but it can be done. -- --Brian, __________________________________________________ the man from |Brian T. Schellenberger ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts Babble-On |104 Willoughby Lane work: (919) 467-8000 x7783 ____________________________|Cary, NC 27513 home: (919) 469-9389 -- --Brian, __________________________________________________ the man from |Brian T. Schellenberger ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts Babble-On |104 Willoughby Lane work: (919) 467-8000 x7783 ____________________________|Cary, NC 27513 home: (919) 469-9389