bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

[Devin Teske]

On Jan 19, 2013, at 8:23 PM, David Lazaro Saz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to find an answer to this question without success.
> 
> Why does bsdinstall(8) use ASCII characters for drawing lines instead of line drawing characters as the old sysinstall(8) did?
> 

A different theory…

It should be noted that sysinstall uses an older version of libdialog (which in 9.x was moved to libodialog). Here's a side-by-side comparison of libodialog (left) and libdialog (right):

http://druidbsd.sf.net/download/bsdconfig/MediaCompareFTP.png

In that case, $TERM was "xterm-256color" running via Apple's Terminal.app.

Of interest I would think is the output of:

dialog --version
echo $TERM

and whether (if possible) sysinstall produces similar results (what release are you running?)
-- 
Devin

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