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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:07:40 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ASCII menu in loader/frames.4th
Message-ID:  <86tztdp8pf.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20070611151620.GA17565@eos.sc1.parodius.com> (Jeremy Chadwick's message of "Mon\, 11 Jun 2007 08\:16\:20 -0700")
References:  <20070611151620.GA17565@eos.sc1.parodius.com>

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Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> One could enable use of this with some loader.conf variable like
> loader_frames=3D"ascii" or (default) loader_frames=3D"cp437", possibly
> even a "vt100" type (using VT100 line-drawing characters).

It should probably be the default.

> I'm not familiar with forth, otherwise I'd come up with a patch.  Maybe
> I'll try learning it (argh, another language to learn...), or hack
> around a bit.

The box-drawing code is in frames.4th and should be fairly easy to
understand and modify even if you don't know 4th.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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