RE: **telnet client

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 23 July 2002 8:36 pm, Scott Klement wrote:
> That's a good idea...
>
> Unfortunately, the license agreement for the Andale Mono font does not
> appear to allow us to distribute it with TN5250.
>
> (And people can already download it separately and use it if they like)

Yes, I was thinking more along those lines. Debian has a package that
downloads the fonts from M$ and installs them, so it was painless enough
on my Linux-only box. I had more trouble with the Windows port of tn5250
getting a font that worked well, and andale seems to fit the job best. If
it's not there by default, it's easy enough to add.

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Martin Rowe wrote:
> > andale mono is a very good font for terminals, courtesy of M$. It
> > works very well in tn5250 in Linux (though I prefer the default font
> > too), so I assume it will be fine in Windows. It seems quite similar
> > to the 3270 IBM font that Client Access uses, where zeros have a dot
> > in the centre to differentiate from a capital O. It's one of the
> > fonts M$ provides 'free', in the interests of common browser fonts.

Regards, Martin
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