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Date:      Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:20:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Subject:   Re: http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/scterm.patch
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010305142014.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3AA40C0B.315C2E86@penix.org>

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On 05-Mar-01 Paul Halliday wrote:
> 
> You are not seriously thinking of correcting this are you?

As I said earlier, it's not the 100% correct fix, but it is better than
nothing. :)  FreeBSD strives to look the same on all platforms, and this
is an actual "feature" of SRM in that it screws up the VGA palette.  If
someone wishes to hack libdialog to use different colors on the alpha
explicitly, that is another ball of wax.
 
> Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>> 
>> >It would be nice to have the sysinstall colors right for
>> >4.3-RELEASE...
>> 
>> Hear hear!
>> 
>> Though I have to say...  I was starting to rely on this "feature" as a
>> way of quickly telling the alpha test box from the x86 test box on our
>> console switch. ;-)
> 
> As I rely on it for the same purposes.
> 
>> 
>> - Jordan
>> 
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