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From: Troy Piggins <usenet-0902@piggo.com>
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Subject: Re: What do we call these?
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:08:05 +1000
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* Faux_Pseudo wrote :
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>> It displays correctly with the latest/current version of slrn  ;)
>
> Which term are you useing?

That's a complicated question  :)  I use slrn in a screen window
over a putty ssh session.  So my $TERM is screen-256color or
something like that.

What's yours?

> I the nicest thing about slrn is that I
> never have felt the need to have the newest version.  The old ones
> always seem to work until its time to get a new computer.  If only all
> software worked that good. 

Indeed the version you are using is a very good and stable
version.  That's why it was so long before the subsequent
releases.

Probably the major improvement that you'll notice if you upgrade
will be better char support.

Do you compile your own from source or use packages from whatever
distro you have?

-- 
Troy Piggins