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From: heimir@hafro.is (Heimir Sverrisson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Graphic characters in Norton Utilities SYS-V
Keywords: Norton Utilities, graphic characters
Message-ID: <175@hafro.is>
Date: 24 Jul 90 19:31:07 GMT
Organization: Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik
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I've just got a copy of The Norton Utilities for SystemV up and
running on my Interactive Unix 386 2.2.  The programs look very
useful and fast -- but there is one thing that prevents me from
using them at all.  I can find no way to change the characters
it uses for line drawing :-)  I'm using the ISO 8859/1 character
set on my machine (because it's the only one that has all Ice-
landic characters).

The programs seem to assume that all terminals have the line drawing
characters of the infamous IBM Code Page 437 :-(

I found no mention of this problem in the manuals, but they say
that the programs use the TERMINFO database.  I've been trying
to change the 'acsc' parameter that does work fine for line drawing
in my own curses-based programs -- but without luck.

Does anyone know if I can change the behaviour of these programs --
either with configuration or even patches ??
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Heimir Thor Sverrisson		heimir@hafro.is
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