Conference misery::feline_v1

    BRIAN!
    
    THAT IS SOOOO CUTE!!!
    
    THANKS!!!
    
    LINDA

    Put it into my Login.com, but couldn't get it to work.
    
    Please put me out of my misery and tell me what it was!
    
    Regards
    
    Kate
    
    
    

This won't work on every terminal.  Your terminal needs to support 
down-loadable fonts.  Terminals that I know can do this are VT220's and 
VT240/1's.  Terminals that I know can *not* do this are the VT100 family.

I suspect that PRO's and VT300 family also support this feature.

Ray_who's_tired_of_his_VT102_and_hopes_his_VT340_comes_soon

Not only cute -- but a lot of work has gone into this too!! Great job.

    Gee, I think you mean a VMS prompt not a DCL prompt don't you?

    It's adorable!  It works on a VT220 !

    Thanks anyway...I saved in for when the new terminals come in...
    
    Dream...Dream...
    
    

    Unfortunately it doesn't work on a DECmate II either.  Oh well,
    I guess I will have to wait.
    
    Holly, Tabby and Silver
    
    

    Just for us poor people with the stone age terminals, would somebody
    please describe the generated prompt figure?
    
    Marion

    
    Re .6  Yes, you're right, Brain/finger interface breaks down again.
    
    Re .2 .5 .10 et al
    
    	Prompt is of plump pussy cat (maybe you know someone with a
    	VT220 etc who will kindly show you).
    
    (I have to state that I did not create this prompt but acquired
    it along the way with various others Snoopy,Woodstock,crocodile
    and so on. My thanks to whoever it was, I just wanted to share it)
    
    Brian

   
    Great prompt, BTW it also sets my terminal back to normal screen
    when I switch sessions from the call handling system that leaves
    my terminal in reverse mode....Just what I've been waiting for!
    
    And thanks to VT241COLOR.COM it is in yellow too! :-)
    
    Thanks,
    
    Ad

        > Prompt is of plump pussy cat (maybe you know someone with a
    	> VT220 etc who will kindly show you).

    I guess I'm not making myself clear here.  I have a *VT220* terminal
    emulator with the VAXstation.  I extracted the note, took out the
    header stuff, and @ed it.  I do not get the plump pussy cat but
    rather that strange set of symbols.  What am I doing wrong?
    
    

    Re: .13
    
    Append it into your login.com file and do an @login or log out and
    log back in.  I have a VT220 and it works, I also have a VT100 and
    all I get is a large square.
    
    Linda

    Ha! I tried it on my Pro-380 and my Rainbow. It looked like this:
    
    
    #$%&
    '()*;
    
    Maybe a nice VT-125....
    
    Edd

    On my VT220, using setup to switch to VT100 mode, I get the same
    symbols so it appears VT220 emulation is not quite enough for the
    special font characters.
    
    Sorry to everyone who tried (but didn't succeed) for the waste of time.
    
    (sound of wrist being slapped)
    
    Brian

    No slapping allowed!  It's a great prompt & fun!  You get an A+
    for sharing it with us.  I, too, get funny symbols if after I
    execute the cat .COM file, and then do an ER, which is my
    symbol for the erase command - to get the cat prompt back, I
    have to do an @LOGIN, and then do @CAT. I think the cat's
    whiskers are messing up something, but it's really cute!
    
    E.T.

    Brian,
    
    Where do I find all the other programs for the other symbols??
    
    Linda

    It works on my terminal and I LOVE it!!!!!!  It's so cute
    thanks a million!
    
    Katie
    

    I have a VAXstation II GPX, wich runs in 220 mode and I also can't
    get the prompt.  I did try on a 240 and its adorable!
    
    Corine

    I finally had InDEC F/S adjust the circuitry of my system to make
    my VT240 and my DECmate II monochrome terminal compatible, so now
    the prompt works!  I was wondering for awhile there...didn't look
    like a cat to me, but now I see it's great!  Thanks for brightening
    the day!
    
    Maureen

re: 1268.13

>    I guess I'm not making myself clear here.  I have a *VT220* terminal
>    emulator with the VAXstation.  I extracted the note, took out the
     ^^^^^^^^
I don't think you're doing anything wrong.  Obviously, your VT220
"emulator" doesn't emulate *everything* a real VT220 does.  Down-loadable
fonts aren't used by much DEC software, so that feature probably got
prioritized off the list when they wrote the emulator.  (Then again, maybe
it's a set-up feature or something.  If there's documentation on the
emulator, it should say what VT220 features are not supported.) 

Simplified technical explanation follows the form feed:


Fonts:  Get real close to your screen, and look at a character.  It's made 
up of dots (pixels) in an 8 by 10 (or so) square.  Some pixels are on, some
are off.  That's how you can recognize a letter.  The VT220 terminal (and
some others) will allow you to define your own "characters" your own way,
by specifying the pixels associated with a particular character. A set of
characters all in the same style is called a font.  (You specify them in a
column of six at a time.  "six pixels" = "sixel".) 

What they did:  It's actually quite a clever idea.  What was done was that
a new graphic representation of eight characters which usually appear as
#$%&'()* was down-loaded into an alternate character set of the VT220. 
Then the VMS SET PROMPT command set the prompt to be a string which says
"shift into alternate character set, print #$%&, do a carriage return,
print '()*, shift into normal character set, and print a >>".  The new
characters, when printed in that order, draw a picture of a cat (or a
Snoopy, or a champagne glass, or other things).  On terminals that don't
support down-loadable fonts, you might then see just the regular
characters: 

#$%&
''();

Or you'd even see these if you turned your VT220 off, and then back on.

On my VT102, I just see a white blob.

I have squirreled away somewhere a font where all the letters are upside 
down.  (great fun for an unsuspecting person.)

Ray

    re:22
    
    
                  Go Ray Go !!
    
    E.T.

    I tried it on a VT240 and it worked fine, so I deduced that the VT220
    emulator wasn't able to emulate the characters properly.  .20 confirmed
    it, thank you.
    
    .22 ... well, some things are better left unsaid.
    
    Sharon
    
    
	
    

    Gee Sharon, I think that .22 was trying to be helpful and
    explanatory - maybe some folks will now be able to see
    the cute prompt because of .22's explanation.  I think
    that you are reading too much into that.
    
    E.T.

   
    The matter has been discussed in e-mail and yes, I did read too
    much into it.
    
    Sharon
    
    

    
    p.s. For those fortunate few who have made the prompt work and who
    	have sealpoint cats, set the screen to 'dark text light screen'
    	via setup to show prompt as sealpoint.

    
    Rather than starting a new note, I though I'd add this to the
    collection of cat computer toys:
    
    If you have a VAXstation, I have recently been given a program to
    change the mouse pointer into many different shapes, one of which is
    a plump cat.  To get it: 
    
    $copy indebt::sys$public:patt.*  wherever-you-want
    
    In patt.cld there is a reference to sys$manager as that is where
    I put my copy.  Change sys$manager to wherever-you-want (sys$login,
    sys$system, etc).  Then in that directory type:
     
    $set command patt
    $cursor cat
    
    Which will change your mouse pointer to a cat.  To find out all
    the choices, type an incorrect cursor type:
    
    $cursor foobar
    
    which gives:                                              
    -%CURSOR-E-UNKNPATT, Unknown Cursor Pattern \FOOBAR\       
    -CURSOR-I-KNOPATT, Known Patterns are:                    
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     ARROW              
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     BOAT               
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     BOX_SPIRAL         
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     CAT                
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     CLOCK              
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     COFFEE_MUG         
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     CROSSHAIR          
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     CROSS_DIAMOND      
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     CROSS_REVERSE      
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     DRAFT_LARGE        
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     DRAFT_SMALL        
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     FIR_TREE           
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     FIRE_PLUG          
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     GOBBLER            
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     GUMBY              
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     HAND               
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     HEART              
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     MAN                
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     MOUSE              
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     PENCIL             
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     PIRATE             
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     PLUS               
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     REALMOUSE          
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     SAILBOAT           
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     SHUTTLE            
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     SPIDER             
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     SPRAYCAN           
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     STAR               
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     TARGET             
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     TREK               
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     UMBRELLA           
    -CURSOR-I-PATTERN,                     WATCH              
    %LIB-F-UNRKEY, "!AS" is an unrecognized keyword           
                                                              
    Have fun and send mail if for some strange reason things don't work,
    I'll try to figure it out! :-)

    I couldn't copy the "mouse pointer" patt.* files (from .28) so I sent
    mail asking Sharon for an update...
    
    Here's the new command to copy the two patt.* files:
    
    $ copy indebt::indebt$user:[public]patt.* destination
    
    Thanks, Sharon!
    
    Karen