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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Graphic characters in Norton Utilities SYS-V
Keywords: Norton Utilities, graphic characters
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.011852.1180@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 26 Jul 90 01:18:52 GMT
References: <175@hafro.is>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <175@hafro.is> heimir@hafro.is (Heimir Sverrisson) writes:
>The programs seem to assume that all terminals have the line drawing
>characters of the infamous IBM Code Page 437 :-(

In the current version of the Utilities, if a full-screen program sees that
it's running on a mappable screen, it goes into a special high-performance
mode that writes directly to the screen and has the line-drawing characters
hard-coded in.  For people not using code page 437, this can produce some
rather peculiar looking screens.  It's a limitation of the current product
that we expect to fix in a future version.

In the meantime, you might try the "-term" flag which tells it to run through
terminfo and curses even though it's on the console, and give it a terminfo
entry that better reflects your screen characters.  It's not quite as fast as
direct writes, but might look nicer.

-- 
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
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