I am also using version .058 and the configuration settings are the same
as yours. What is your translation setting in PuTTY and $LANG on Linux?
I read something about making a change to YaST so I can use the UTF-8
translation, but I don't want to start making alterations when they're
not needed.

Ray Mrohs
U.S. Department of Justice
202-307-6896


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> Hi,
>
> PuTTY is able to work perfectly with Linux on the Z, but there is some
> parameters to set.
>
> My settings are :
> In Terminal, check Use background color to erase screen.
> This will allow
> you a "pretty" drawing of ncurses applications like YaST and
> mc.  This is a
> must, otherwise the background will be transparent, so black if your
> background is black.
>
> In Window, set a big number for the Lines of scrollback
> parameter, or you
> will not be able to scroll the screen to see long output,
> like a Tripwire
> report.  I use 20,000 lines.
>
> In Window/Translation, choose the Use unicode line drawing
> code points to
> have a better drawing on the screen in ncurses applications.  You can
> compare with the Poor man's line drawing to see for yourself.
>
> In Window/Colours, check the Allow terminal to specify ANSI
> colours, Allow
> terminal to use xterm 256-colour mode and Bolded text is a
> different colour.
>
> This is going fine for me.  I did not touch the encoding and languages
> parameters.
>
> I use PuTTY 0.58 by the way.
>
> Regards.

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