Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usenet
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet & System 7 : Bugs?
Message-ID: <vnnhlgf@rpi.edu>
Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu
References: <3602@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 30 May 91 18:23:56 GMT
Lines: 20

In article <3602@wn1.sci.kun.nl> lwj@cs.kun.nl (Luc Rooijakkers) writes:
> The only font that seems to work okay is Courier. All the others result
> in a wide window, with all characters being displayed as if they were
> about twice their width. Even the cursor gets this width, so I suspect
> there is a problem with Telnet calculating the maximum width of all
> the characters in a font. The characters themselves have their normal
> shape (i.e., not extra wide). Has anyone else seen this? How can I cure
> it?

It may be interesting to note that I have NCSA Telnet running on my Mac IIci  
here at work with no problems.  I moved the exact same files over to a Mac Plus  
that someone else has here, and on that machine it shows the behavior you  
describe.  The Mac Plus we were using was the older ROMs (it's really an  
upgraded Mac 512KE, if I remember right), so I assumed it had something to do  
with that.  In our case we just set the font to Courier 10 and left it there.

 -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer                       (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA
