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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Subject: Re: what font is my xterm using?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.132743.9116@ericsson.se>
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- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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- References: <1992Dec17.222631.27524@physiol.su.OZ.AU> <1992Dec21.002800.12889@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <1992Dec22.124414.1080@cas.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:27:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.124414.1080@cas.org>
- lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- |> Isn't there an escape sequence one can use to set the font? A script could
- |> ask the user if they would like the shell to set things into an
- |> appropriate font for them...
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- The documented sequence ^[]50;$fontname^G works for me where ^[ is
- escape, $fontname is your shell script variable holding the name of the
- font and ^G is control G.
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- Michael Salmon
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