[SUMMARY] remote serial console with good fonts for managing KZPAC/ARC stuff

Dear all,

this is a summary without a question because I wanted to share some  
useful information which I couldn't find in the archives.

The problem was how to work with the KZPAC offline management utility  
which can be found here:

	http://h18006.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/products/storage/retired/ra230/ 
index.html

over a remote serial console (e.g. a standard serial console via a  
Lantronix LRS-16F serial concentrator) in particular using an XTerm as  
the console.  If you use a standard XTerm then the fonts for all the  
pretty line-drawing characters is completely wrong and can confuse  
quite a bit since it turns them into 8-bit accented characters.

The solution is to use the X11 font which was developed for use with  
dosemu, an MS-DOS emulator for Linux (and other i386 free *nixes).  It  
can be downloaded, amongst other places, from:

	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dosemu/dosemu-1.2.2.tgz?download

as part of the dosemu package.  The relevant files normally live in:

	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga10x20-cp866.pcf.gz
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/dosemu-vga11x19.pcf.gz
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga.pcf.gz
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga-cp866.pcf.gz

and to use them you simply invoke the XTerm for use as the remote  
console with:

	xterm -fn -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-ibm-cp437

then within the XTerm all the line characters used by ARC and in  
particular the KZPAC offline management utility will be perfect.

I hope this small trick is of help to others too.

Ciao,

Arrigo