Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:04:46 -0600

> I would like to set up an environment on my Debian system that is
> suitable for viewing and creating ANSI art, specifically the sort that
> was popular on bulletin board systems in the 90's.
>
> Based on what I could find on Google, these are usually intended for the
> so-called "extended ASCII" 8-bit character set that was used on IBM PC's
> and compatible systems running DOS.

You probably want one of these:

xfonts-terminus-dos - Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings
xfonts-dosemu - VGA font for the DOS Emulator

If you want to use the console, 'man consolechars'. 'apropos console' for other relevant commands.

You may also be interested in these packages:

aa3d - ASCII art stereogram generator aewan - ASCII-art Editor Without A
Name artwiz-cursor - artwiz futuristic mouse cursor for x11 ascii -
interactive ASCII name and synonym chart asciijump - Small and funny
ASCII-art game about ski jumping aview - A high quality ASCII art image
viewer and video player bb - ASCII-art demo based on AAlib
libaa1 - ascii art library
libaa1-dev - ascii art library, development kit msc - Generates simple
ASCII message sequence charts overkill - bloody 2D action deathmatch-like
game in ascii-art textdraw - Tool to draw/modify/move geometric figures &
text for ASCII art xfonts-mona - proportional fonts for 2ch ASCII art

John Hasler

> If you want to use the console, 'man consolechars'.  'apropos console'
> for other relevant commands.

> The "dosemu" package includes the font that you want -- the very same
> one that came on the IBM-PC, with all the line-drawing glyphs and such.

> The other problem is colors.  I know that the 'rxvt' xterm clone allows
> each ANSI color to be set to an arbitrary RGB value using X resources.

> I don't know what the proper settings are, but I would not be surprised
> if the dosemu documentation was helpful in this respect.  Unfortunately,
> rxvt does not support blinking.