People have often commented how they can get color and/or eight bit characters working when running epic linked against ncurses and running under gnu screen. All of this information was graciously provided by johnnie_doe@hotmail.com (Starv@ircnet) COLORS: ------- To get colors under gnu screen, add these lines to your .screenrc file: termcap vt102 'AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm' terminfo vt102 'AF=\E[3%p1%dm:AB=\E[4%p1%dm' If screen does not default to 'vt102', make sure you set TERM to vt102 before you run epic. EIGHT BIT CHARS: --------------- If epic is linked against ncurses (it is by default), you can set some ncurses options to make it accept eight bit characters more gracefully. Add the following lines to your .inputrc: set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on Then in EPIC, you may need to: /set high_bit_escape 0 and you should be on your way. EPIC4 used to require /SET EIGHT_BIT_CHARACTERS ON but this is now unnecessary in epic5. If you are using GNU screen, make sure you have "defc1 off" in your screenrc file, because screen won't even display characters 128-159 with it on (and it is on by default). (from Ben Winslow, May 16, 1999) DRAWING CHARACTERS: ------------------- Fonts come with multiple character sets. Usually there is a character set with european national characters ("latin-1"), and another character set with box drawing characters ("vga"). These character sets are mutually exclusive, and epic never forces you to use one or the other (unlike bx, which forces you into vga mode unconditionally) So if your font is in latin-1 mode, and your script wants vga mode, then you will see lots of strange vowels and stuff. Exit epic, run this command at your shell: echo "X(U" | tr 'X' '\033' and restart epic. Good luck! Jeremy