From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 17 12:15:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA23133 for current-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 12:15:36 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA23125 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 12:15:17 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA02817; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 21:15:07 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA15625; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 21:15:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA15479; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 19:01:16 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509171701.TAA15479@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: libforms - thumbs up or down? To: paul@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 19:01:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, current@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199509171428.PAA02784@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Sep 17, 95 03:28:20 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 878 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Richards wrote: > > > Odd points: the frame is drawn as "qxl" characters on an xterm, and > > Doesn't on mine. Umm, what are "qxl" characters. This is probably something > to do with your setup. libforms just uses ncurses and ncurses decides > what a ACS_VLINE etc actually is for a particular terminal. Strange, it happened only in one xterm -- i've tested it in another one, and it works their. (Of course, neither did pkg_manage work.) > I'll come back to libforms sometime soon since it's actually very > close to being finished now that I look at it again but it'll > probably not be as part of the FreeBSD project. I still think it would be nice to have it in ports, just in case somebody else is also interested. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)