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 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PuTTY Question > Importance: Low > > 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
