Re: Supporting Macintosh FinderInfo/Resource Fork in Linux NWFS 2.0

Alan Curry (pacman-kernel@cqc.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:40:47 -0500 (EST)


Horst von Brand writes the following:
>> the **wrong** 8 bit characters for line drawing. It's a shame that
>> ncurses is dumb and doesn't detect this and switch to cp_437 during
>> initscr().
>
>You got me there. How is ncurses supposed to find out what (if anything)
>appears on screen when it outputs <random byte>?

Obviously it is supposed to open /dev/mem and peek and poke directly at the
font at 0xA0000, oops I mean A000:0000, we are all using PeeCees aren't we

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