When using SCOANSI, AT386 or other ANSI-series emulations, screens that should have lines or boxes drawn may not. Or the lines may draw as letters instead.

To fix that, open the Session Properties and go to the Code Page tab. Click the Advanced button. The top two lines of that dialog are SCOANSI alternate character sets. Set both to “STD 437 MS-DOS Latin US”. That should correct the line draw problem.

You can also go to the Attributes tab and check the “Use Non-Font Based line draw characters” option. This will use Windows graphics instead of text characters to draw the lines.

Restoring the code pages to the alternate character sets will also fix character alignment problems. For example, if the screen goes out of alignment when you minimize TinyTERM, check the SCOANSI alternate character sets.

CR 281, default.tpx
CR 360, added to all included .tpx files

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