ssh client affecting fonts?

[Eric]

Eric wrote:
> Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>>
>> So what terminal type is set when you use SecureCRT?  putty will use 
>> something like xterm or vt100 both of which will display make config 
>> correctly, but a setting for a dumb terminal or no setting will look 
>> more like your screenshot.
>>
>> --Alex
>>
>>
> i have tried xterm, linux, ansi, etc all with the same result. i also 
> tried different fonts in secureCRT to no avail.  Putty is using xterm 
> and courier new.  weird

i was playing with it more and it seems to work ok, from a serial 
console anyways, while using windows 2003. I am using Vista on this 
machine. could that be the culprit? putty has no such issue tho