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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:50:52 -0800
From:      Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        David Lazaro Saz <dlazaro@mac.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters
Message-ID:  <88E25E2A-24EE-491A-B82A-A26E849B1ABF@fisglobal.com>
In-Reply-To: <1C064C2C-52A4-4A37-AB3D-68049093D7BD@mac.com>
References:  <1C064C2C-52A4-4A37-AB3D-68049093D7BD@mac.com>

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On Jan 19, 2013, at 8:23 PM, David Lazaro Saz wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> I've tried to find an answer to this question without success.
>=20
> Why does bsdinstall(8) use ASCII characters for drawing lines instead of =
line drawing characters as the old sysinstall(8) did?
>=20

A different theory=85

It should be noted that sysinstall uses an older version of libdialog (whic=
h in 9.x was moved to libodialog). Here's a side-by-side comparison of libo=
dialog (left) and libdialog (right):

http://druidbsd.sf.net/download/bsdconfig/MediaCompareFTP.png

In that case, $TERM was "xterm-256color" running via Apple's Terminal.app.

Of interest I would think is the output of:

dialog --version
echo $TERM

and whether (if possible) sysinstall produces similar results (what release=
 are you running?)
--=20
Devin

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