From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 19:00:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E0E16A41F for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:00:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B95613C447 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:00:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 52FC71CC044; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:00:44 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20070612190044.GA83848@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20070611151620.GA17565@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <86tztdp8pf.fsf@dwp.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <86tztdp8pf.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASCII menu in loader/frames.4th X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:00:44 -0000 On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:07:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick 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 |