X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f5188e3907698949 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-12 11:39:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news2.e.nsc.no.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Per-Egil Hovin Subject: Re: Viewing ANSI Art on Linux ? Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Reply-To: ping.vin@online.no References: Lines: 15 Organization: Hjemme User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.67.113.77 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@telenor.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:39:17 MET X-Trace: news2.ulv.nextra.no 1045078757 130.67.113.77 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:38:56 +0100 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21809 B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I would like to be able to view ansi art on my linux virtual console > like one can on a dos console. However if I should try to 'cat' an ansi > art file on to the console all i see is garbage characters of some > latin character set. > TIA > BT I use SuSE Linux with KDE 3 desktop. If you open shell console and change the font to courier, it looks fine. (Settings/Font/Custom... on the window menu) -- ping.vin