From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/6596 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kritzberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: fedora_core_4+putty+windows_xp+emacs_gnus Date: 05 Feb 2006 15:25:21 -0700 Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139178754 10131 80.91.229.2 (5 Feb 2006 22:32:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 22:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 05 23:32:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5sQn-0000cw-6X for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:32:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5sU4-0003ZJ-0X for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:35:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.colorado.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dijon.colorado.edu Original-X-Trace: peabody.colorado.edu 1139178323 1645 128.138.146.160 (5 Feb 2006 22:25:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@colorado.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Feb 2006 22:25:23 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:91094 gnu.emacs.gnus:76794 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:6596 Archived-At: David Kritzberg 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