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Date: Mon,  6 Dec 2004 16:44:03 -0500
From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] Drawterm vanishing font fix
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It's atrocious.  It's a hack.  It should be removed at
the earliest appearance of a true fix.

... but it works.  Andrey has committed a patch to
drawterm that basically performs David Tolpin's workaround
from long ago as a flag (-b) so those of us with (as it seems)
poorly written video drivers can enjoy fonts with drawterm.

The b stands for 'broken stipple,' which as i understand
it is the problem.

Now, should I update the drawterm manpage to document it
or is it so offensive as to be hidden from sight?

Cheers,

Sam