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Topic: BitchX displaying the *CORRECT* ansi/ascii chars.
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willy wonka
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posted March 14, 2002 06:21 AM
i know it helped mine a lot when i set my terminal to us ascii string encoding, rather than the unicode it started out at.
as for fonts, damned if i know, but i've been led to believe that os x can use pretty much any type of font [bitmapped, true type, post script, et cetera]. if you can find a good font site, i'm sure they'll have something that works.-------------------- -- -willy
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enos
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posted March 23, 2002 08:45 PM
Okay guys, just a follow up on this topic -- I've gotten this to work.What I had to do : Step 1. Download and install BitchX
Step 2. Download and install xDarwin
Step 3. Download and install rxvt
Step 4. Download and install the vga11x19 font. After you've completed these steps, you launch rxvt with the command:
rxvt -fg white -bg black -fn vga11x19 if you would like to view what BitchX is supposed to look like, here are some screen shots: 
I am also going to write a full tutorial on this procedure step by step since i've been tearing my hair out for the past 2 weeks trying to figure it out.  )
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<Fahrvergnuugen>
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posted April 22, 2002 07:38 AM
Can someone help me with this?
I downloaded the binary and ran it using ./BitchX and that's what it looks like. Anybody know why? -Paul
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enos
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posted April 22, 2002 02:11 PM
Have you installed ncurses >= 5.2??
if not, you have several options. You can install ncurses using fink --
(http://fink.sourceforge.net), or you can do the following:open up a terminal window and login is a root. # su - root once you're root, type the following to retrieve the ncurses archive from the gnu ftp site. root:~#: ftp ftp.gnu.org
login: anonymous
pass: youremail@host.com ftp> cd pub/gnu//ncurses
ftp> bin
ftp> get ncurses-5.2.tar.gz when the transfer finishes type : ftp> quit the following commands will decompress, configure, make and install ncurses. root:~#: gzip -d ncurses-5.2.tar.gz
root:~#: tar -vxf ncurses-5.2.tar.gz
root:~#: cd ncurses-5.2
root:~#: ./configure --enable-symlinks
root:~#: make;make install Also, be sure that you are using the most current version of BitchX ported to MacOS X. the most recent version is BitchX-1.0c18. You can download the latest version on the newest version of fink, or you can do a general web search using Yahoo or something. I found it pretty difficult to find it via websearch, so you may just want to use fink. 
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enos
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posted April 22, 2002 02:14 PM
sorry... i messed up one little thing :the directory that ncurses is in is : ftp> cd pub/gnu/ncurses (i had a double slash there in my last post)..
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<Fahrvergnuugen>
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posted April 22, 2002 02:46 PM
I downloaded the ncurses installer from macosx.forked.net version 5.2I downloaded the BitchX binary from www.bitchx.com version 1.0c19
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enos
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posted April 28, 2002 12:02 PM
If you're using Terminal, it won't display the ansi charecters correctly. if you're using XDarwin, you need to download fonts that will display ansi charecters. some fonts can be found at the following url :
X Ansi Fonts the page includes directions on how to install the fonts. remember, you have to run /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir as root. when you're done, you're going to run the xserver rehash command as the user you are logged in as. (for instance, my login is 'enos', and if i executed xdarwin with enos, i'd have to run the rehash as enos, it won't work as root). when you're all done installing the fonts, if you're using rxvt as i do for your terminal program, you'd use the command : rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn <fontname>
example :
rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn vga
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rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn nexus you can also compile rxvt to have the default background as black and the default foreground as white. ) hope i was a little helpful.
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