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#35933 - 07/08/2001 14:17 Pretty font...
cwillenbrock
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Registered: 30/12/2000
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Loc: Dover, NJ
Can anyone identify the wonderful font coming from my empeg?




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#35934 - 07/08/2001 14:22 Re: Pretty font... [Re: cwillenbrock]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31578
Loc: Seattle, WA
That looks like "Incorrect COM Port Settings Demi Bold". Or it could possibly be a variation of "Wrong Port Speed Narrow Italic", or "You Need To Cycle The Power On The Empeg Gothic".

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#35935 - 07/08/2001 14:25 Re: Pretty font... [Re: tfabris]
tfabris
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Oh, I just realized... it could also possibly be "Bad Cable Modern", or "Make Sure The Cable Is Plugged In All The Way Oldstyle".

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#35936 - 07/08/2001 14:29 Re: Pretty font... [Re: tfabris]
cwillenbrock
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Registered: 30/12/2000
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Nah...it was a freak occurance. I just closed out of my terminal program and went back in, and it was fine again.



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#35937 - 07/08/2001 14:54 Re: Pretty font... [Re: cwillenbrock]
smu
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Registered: 30/07/2000
Posts: 879
Loc: Germany (Ruhrgebiet)
Hi.

Though you solved it by restarting your terminal program:
That looks like something binary was cat'ed to the terminal, switching fonts by control characters being sent to the terminal. If that was the case, sending the following character sequence might help (or could have helped):
"echo "+CTRL-V+CTRL-O
That is sending the literal string "echo" followed by a space character, the CTRL-V control code and the CTRL-O control code.
By the way, I think CTRL-V CTRL-N is the combination switching to the garbled font. (Just verified this, yes, I'm right.)
You could leave out the "echo " part, if you don't mind your shell complaining about an unknown command/nonexistant file.

cu,
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#35938 - 07/08/2001 14:58 Re: Pretty font... [Re: smu]
Tim
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Registered: 25/04/2000
Posts: 1522
Loc: Arizona
The 'reset' command also works on some terminals. I'm not sure if its present on the empeg, something else worth playing around to find .


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#35939 - 07/08/2001 16:33 Re: Pretty font... [Re: tfabris]
altman
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Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
It's more like "VT100 shift-out received" :)

Hugo
(programmed lots of terminal emulations in a previous life - vt52, vt100, vt220 (inc downloadable charsets), viewdata, minitel, 3270, you name it...)


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#35940 - 07/08/2001 16:35 Re: Pretty font... [Re: altman]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31578
Loc: Seattle, WA
It's more like "VT100 shift-out received" :)

Hmm, is that the Light or Demi variant?

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