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> From Sindi in response to Czerno:

> Hi Sindi & List !
>
>
> > http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/xfonts-bl3-full.tgz  --  23K
>
> >  Copy the file to misc and tar -zxvf, and it should replace the
> origin
> >  files with the full-size ones.
>
>
> Did that; unfortunately I see no changes, aka the fix did not "take".

Steven just explained that the default font (cl) is a small one and he did 
not strip it.  It probably never contained extended ascii characters.  To 
try one of the other four fonts edit /root/.Xdefaults or start an rxvt 
with another font (if you know how - I don't).

Let us know how helv and lut work in lynx or links in X.
Is lut the proportional one (times?).

> > You do not download mail at a shell account, you read it with mutt
or pine.

> I know what you mean, but don't like it that way. Using pine in an
> ssh to read/write my mail ?

Yes, I have been doing that for ten years now at various shell accounts.
Once you learn how it is much faster than webmail.  To delete a mail type 
d and when you q(uit) they all get deleted.  No browser or mouse needed.
Maybe webmail is tolerable with broadband.

> > e3pi does allow more editing freedom than native lynx.
> > > Lynx is very ugly for filling in forms.

> That is why I have defined e3pi for my text_editor in Lynx options.
> I am using it now, and finding it more and more convenient. Did you
> experiment with the setting ? When you want to fill a form in lynx,
> you type
> Control_X e, Lynx spawns an instance of e3pi in its stead; you do all

I never knew about Ctrl-X e.  I already have 'pico' as my editor in BL2. 
Thanks!  Big improvement.  Where did you learn this?
Sindi

> Cheers,
>
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> Czerno