Your friend,
Jeff
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, David Weinehall wrote:
>
> > Either just ignore him, or help him. Flaming people will never help them.
>
> Urgh... I guess that you had less support calls along those lines.
>
> OK, anyway: problem has _nothing_ with terminal settings or with the
> shell. Couldn't have anything with the latter and posted code does the
> right thing with the former (even if it wasn't originally set right, which
> I doubt). However, different charsets have different locations for
> pseudo-graphics. And believe me, lots of DOS programs were butt-ugly on
> (e.g.) Cyrillic charsets. Could you spell "box boundary consisting of
> letters"? Sweet memories of client config utilities from NW 2.x on
> Pravetz... If you need CGA-compatible charset - use cp437. For more
> graceful solution - check dialog(1). BTW, I suspect that you could
> seriously cut down on the coding simply calling dialog or whiptail - they
> can handle such stuff quite fine.
>
> And now for the first part of advice...
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