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From: scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Box attributes in terminfo
Message-ID: <23850@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 8 Mar 91 04:53:36 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Under AIX 3.1, IBM has extened curses and, in addition, added a few
fields not normally found in terminfo on other system. Among the fields
added are box1, box2, batt1 and batt2 - they have, however, neglected
to document these fields in any significant manner. They do get 
mentioned, very briefly, in the info entry for the terminfo file.

Apparently, however, these are used - in particular, by info. Without
the box attributes in a terminfo entry, info draws garbage on the screen
when trying to drawy boxes. In addition, despite other attributes which
one would think define the graphics character set, stuff like smit
still simulates boxes using characters...

any clues - or is viewing info on any thing other than a "supported"
terminal a lost cause?

- Scott