rxvt and line-drawing characters

[Andrew DeFaria]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> Basically, you're stuck with 'pstree -A'.
>> Works in Cygwin but not on my Linux box (Fedora Core 3):
>>
>> Jupiter:pstree -A
>> pstree: invalid option -- A
>> usage: pstree [ -a ] [ -c ] [ -h | -H pid ] [ -l ] [ -n ] [ -p ] [ -u ]
>>              [ -G | -U ] [ pid | user]
>>       pstree -V
>
> Hmm.  So, you're ssh'ed in to your linux box from your cygwin machine, 
> using a terminal emulator under cygwin but executing pstree on the 
> linux system.
Yup
>
> Ah.
>
> Well, you can try xterm instead.  It intercepts the VT-100 control 
> sequences and draws the box "glyphs" itself, without regard to the 
> font you're using.  So it kinda always works.
Didn't see the need to run a resource consuming X server just to do 
basically non graphical work.
>
> Also, rxvt-unicode does the same thing (see 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-03/msg00119.html )
Also X heavy from what I read.
>
> But both of those options work only if you're using a local X-server 
> on your cygwin machine, to display the locally-running terminal 
> emulator program (xterm or rxvt-unicode).
>
Yes, not really looking to start up a heavy X server just to do 
essentially character mode I/O.


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