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Subject: Re: ASCII menu in loader/frames.4th
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Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> One could enable use of this with some loader.conf variable like
> loader_frames=3D"ascii" or (default) loader_frames=3D"cp437", possibly
> even a "vt100" type (using VT100 line-drawing characters).

It should probably be the default.

> I'm not familiar with forth, otherwise I'd come up with a patch.  Maybe
> I'll try learning it (argh, another language to learn...), or hack
> around a bit.

The box-drawing code is in frames.4th and should be fairly easy to
understand and modify even if you don't know 4th.

DES
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