David Kritzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello comp.emacs Folks, > > Many readers of this group may be free of Windows, but unfortunately I > am not. Someone might recommend that I get into Cygwin rather than > putty, which I would consider, but I am hoping someone might have a > helpful answer to my immediate problem: > > I run a pc with Fedora Core 4, and from my laptop (thinkpad) I use > putty on Windows XP to get a terminal session. This is how I do a lot > of my work. For the most part, this is great. But there are > situations in which I start to have a messy screen. This happens > fairly regularly when I use GNU Emacs and run gnus. It may have > something to do with long threads with long subject lines. I find I > have to maximize and then un-maximize the putty window to clean up the > screen, but in that case the top and bottom lines of the terminal > screen are still displayed "incorrectly" -- messily. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction for solving this problem? > What are the likely parameters that should be changed? Is it the > terminal settings at the CLI level on the server side, or is it > something I can fix in gnus (in .emacs) or is it likely to be coming > from some known issue with FC4, or is it possibly related to the > settings I am using in putty? > > If this helps, I found that playing Nethack -- I mean, sitting at a > Windows laptop, running putty, logging into my FC4 machine, and > starting and playing Nethack from there -- I got an unreadable > screen. Characters were placed incorrectly and I could not follow the > movement of my pet or my character, or even tell exactly where I was > standing. I was using a text based setup that had been working > earlier, but under an earlier Fedora release, and a slightly earlier > version of Nethack... > > Thanks, > Dave > -- > _______________________________________ > Dave Kritzberg > david dot kritzberg at colorado dot edu
Maybe it would help if I show what I see on my screen: http://dijon.colorado.edu/temp/ I posted two screen captures there. Thanks! Dave _______________________________________________ Info-gnus-english mailing list Info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english