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    SubjectRe: Supporting Macintosh FinderInfo/Resource Fork in Linux NWFS 2.0
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    "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> said:
    > I'm using the ACS_* characters in ncurses. These map to +=-, etc. on
    > terminals that don't have support for the box characters (an Alan Cox
    > suggestion -- excellent one at that). Folks were right about the 8 bit
    > stuff, it's a char set mapping problem, and the console is putting out
    > 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>?
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