Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:03:12 +0100 (MET) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Supporting Macintosh FinderInfo/Resource Fork in Linux NWFS 2 .0 |
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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 justinf@us.ibm.com wrote:
> > > Hi, > > Mike wrote: > > > Although you want easy-to-use and nice looking box drawing characters, > > you must realize that people using Kana/Kanji charsets, KOI8-R > > charsets, ISO-8859-* charsets, etc. may not have access to box drawing > > characters -- they are inherently nonportable. If you can't handle > > the appearance degradation that results from use of the ncurses box > > drawing functions (or those present in higher level text-widget > > libraries), I suggest you look at the "fat line" (background-color > > based) drawing used by e.g. the "dialog" package. > > smitty, the terminal-based version of AIX's system management tool, > uses dashes (0x2d), pipes (0x7c), and plus signs (0x2b), like this:
Justin: When will you port smitty to Linux?! :^)
According to me, smitty is one of the most useful setup-tools I've ever used... I want it on Linux.
Then again, I want a port of Linux to RS/6000 too, mainly for the MCA-variants.
Dreams, dreams...
/David _ _ // David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> /> Northern lights wander \\ // Project MCA Linux hacker // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ </ Full colour fire </
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