Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:00:44 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASCII menu in loader/frames.4th Message-ID: <20070612190044.GA83848@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <86tztdp8pf.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20070611151620.GA17565@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <86tztdp8pf.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:07:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > One could enable use of this with some loader.conf variable like > > loader_frames="ascii" or (default) loader_frames="cp437", possibly > > even a "vt100" type (using VT100 line-drawing characters). > > It should probably be the default. Which should 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. I'll spend some time this week hacking at it and do my best to provide patches once I manage to figure it out. Thanks for the encouragement, and the information. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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