From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 20 16:04:19 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 447A4360; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:04:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dlazaro@mac.com) Received: from st11p01mm-asmtp001.mac.com (st11p01mm-asmtp001.mac.com [17.172.204.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD509A2; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:04:18 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from [10.0.0.6] (110.Red-79-144-247.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [79.144.247.110]) by st11p01mm-asmtp001.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-24.01(7.0.4.24.0) 64bit (built Jan 3 2012)) with ESMTPSA id <0MGX00A1KJ5X3B20@st11p01mm-asmtp001.mac.com>; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:03:36 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.9.8327,1.0.431,0.0.0000 definitions=2013-01-20_03:2013-01-18,2013-01-20,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1212290000 definitions=main-1301200127 Subject: Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters From: David Lazaro Saz In-reply-to: <88E25E2A-24EE-491A-B82A-A26E849B1ABF@fisglobal.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:03:31 +0100 Message-id: <633A6573-BCDA-41CD-A5CA-1749DE36283A@mac.com> References: <1C064C2C-52A4-4A37-AB3D-68049093D7BD@mac.com> <88E25E2A-24EE-491A-B82A-A26E849B1ABF@fisglobal.com> To: Devin Teske X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:04:19 -0000 On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > Of interest I would think is the output of: > > dialog --version > echo $TERM > > and whether (if possible) sysinstall produces similar results (what release are you running?) I'm still running 8.3 in production. I've noticed this while playing with 9.0 and 9.1 both on vmware and older machines. I think that you are right and it has to do with the TERM variable and how it is set in the system console. In 8.3, the system console is defined as "cons25" while on 9.1 it is defined as "xterm". If I execute the following command: # TERM=cons25 bsdinstall Then the line drawing characters are show correctly on the system console. If I do the opposite on 8.3, defining TERM as xterm, then the results are even worse than on 9.1. dialog(1) is on version 1.1-20100428 on 9.1 and on version 0.3 on 8.3. I can't find neither when nor why the system console was changed to xterm looking at the release notes of FreeBSD 9.0, but this seem to be the reason. The TERM variable is defined on /etc/ttys, so I'll try to find the change on the svn repository to shed some light. Would you recommend opening a PR about this? Thanks for your help. David