Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:23:22 +0100, David Lazaro Saz wrote: Hi, I've tried to find an answer to this question without success. Why does bsdinstall(8) use ASCII characters for drawing lines instead of line drawing characters as the old sysinstall(8) did? I assume this has to do with a

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 19, 2013, at 8:23 PM, David Lazaro Saz wrote: Hi, I've tried to find an answer to this question without success. Why does bsdinstall(8) use ASCII characters for drawing lines instead of line drawing characters as the old sysinstall(8) did? A different theory… It should be

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread David Lazaro Saz
On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: 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?) I'm still running 8.3 in production. I've

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 04:03:31PM +0100, David Lazaro Saz wrote: On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: Of interest I would think is the output of: dialog --version echo $TERM and whether (if possible) sysinstall produces similar results (what

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread David Lazaro Saz
On Jan 20, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Thomas Dickey dic...@radix.net wrote: TERM is one thing, the driver is another. Since the xterm terminal description supports line-drawing characters, it sounds as if the underlying problem is in the console driver. You are right. The problem is in how teken(3)

bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-19 Thread David Lazaro Saz
Hi, I've tried to find an answer to this question without success. Why does bsdinstall(8) use ASCII characters for drawing lines instead of line drawing characters as the old sysinstall(8) did? Thanks, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org