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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 1995 19:01:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        paul@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libforms - thumbs up or down?
Message-ID:  <199509171701.TAA15479@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199509171428.PAA02784@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Sep 17, 95 03:28:20 pm

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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. ;-)



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