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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:34:07 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
Cc:        Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=F2_rcbseLr1kkuF4aD5C%2BMGuZVX-U_Db_bKxi@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:28:59 +0300, Anonymous wrote:
>>
>> Yuri Pankov<yuri.pankov@gmail.com> =A0writes:
>>
>>> Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn<at> =A0freebsd.org> =A0writes:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> As part of work on a new installer, I would like to update the base
>>>> system dialog and libdialog to the newer one provided by Thomas Dickey
>>>> (http://invisible-island.net/dialog/, ports as devel/cdialog). This is=
 a
>>>> much nicer, fuller featured version of dialog that simplifies the
>>>> creation of new dialog-using tools (a longstanding impediment to a new
>>>> versions of sade, sysinstall, etc.), and is under a marginally better
>>>> license (LGPL2 instead of GPL2).
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> `make config` in ports is showing garbage when used inside the screen
>>> (built
>>
>> By `garbage' do you mean pseudographic symbols? They look as lines of
>> `?' question marks here. =A0Try invoking OPTIONS like below
>>
>> =A0 $ make config DIALOG=3D'dialog --ascii-lines'
>>
>> Apart from OPTIONS there is also ports/154121 (--hline).
>
> Thanks for the hints. Garbage means screen is totally unreadable, not min=
or
> issues with pseudographic characters (sorry, not sure how to make a
> screenshot of that). --ascii-lines helps here.

script would help.

>>> with default options) in syscons, en_US.UTF-8. I'll provide additional
>>> testing/details if this information is not enough to reproduce.
>>
>> /head uses xterm emulation by default. This may or may not affect
>> pseudographics.

Thanks,
-Garrett



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