>
>
> Hi,
>
> Mike wrote:
>
> > Although you want easy-to-use and nice looking box drawing characters,
> > you must realize that people using Kana/Kanji charsets, KOI8-R
> > charsets, ISO-8859-* charsets, etc. may not have access to box drawing
> > characters -- they are inherently nonportable. If you can't handle
> > the appearance degradation that results from use of the ncurses box
> > drawing functions (or those present in higher level text-widget
> > libraries), I suggest you look at the "fat line" (background-color
> > based) drawing used by e.g. the "dialog" package.
>
> smitty, the terminal-based version of AIX's system management tool,
> uses dashes (0x2d), pipes (0x7c), and plus signs (0x2b), like this:
Justin: When will you port smitty to Linux?! :^)
According to me, smitty is one of the most useful setup-tools I've ever
used... I want it on Linux.
Then again, I want a port of Linux to RS/6000 too, mainly for the
MCA-variants.
Dreams, dreams...
/David
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