9 Oct
1999
9 Oct
'99
10:18 p.m.
On Oct 9, 19:56, R. D. Davis wrote:
While trying to make my Sun 4/110 bootable again, I
ran into a slight
problem with Seagate's web page: their documentation for older drives,
such as the jumper info., is somewhat undecipherable for someone using
UNIX... perhaps it's readable by MS-DOS/Windows systems, not sure.
It is, if they are using "standard" (for MS-DOS) fonts, such as the normal
VGA font.
BTW, can anyone tell me what format their web page us
using to display
the info? Does Microsoft windows use some sort of unusual ASCII?
It's not ASCII, it's using characters in the range 128-255, which in the
original PC include line drawing characters. You can download a character
set with the line drawing chracters for Windows by following the link near
the top of each of Seagate's spec pages.
Eg, on http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/st41200n.shtml, there's a
line with two links: "Odd characters? _Click_here_for_help_. A version of
this specification with the linedraw characters approximated by text is
available by _clicking_here_." The first link takes you to a help page for
Windoze users, the second takes you to a CGI program that fetches the
flat-ASCII version from Seagate's FTP site,
ftp://ftp.seagate.com/techsuppt/scsi/st41200n.txt
Another way to deal with the problem (if you're using X Windows) is to find
and install a font with the line drawing characters. There's one called
vga.pcf.Z floating around the web somewhere.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York