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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:18:06 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: box() function in curses
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:12:58PM -0500, Didier Juges wrote:
>The box() function in curses creates an ugly looking box, where the extended
>characters drawing the box (ACS_VLINE, ACS_HLINE) are replaced with
>characters from the lower ASCII set (3 and ?). This code works fine under
>VT100 terminal settings.
>
>I suppose this may be due to the TERM setting in cygwin, which is 'cygwin'
>instead of VT100.
>
>Any idea how to fix that?

The cygwin code in question is in fhandler_console.cc.

Modifying this file would be how you fix that.

See also:

http://cygwin.com/contrib.html

cgf

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