Curses: Drawing Boxes -- sending control chars

[Chris Bertin]

In article <806 at riddle.UUCP>, domo at riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop) writes:
> ... So, if you feed tic a
> terminal description containing an acsc=... capability, you should get
> prettier boxes when you use the curses box() function.  Admittedly, this is
> all theory: I've never had to do it myself in anger -- although I've spent
> plenty of time persuading applications authors that they should be doing
> it, rather than...
> 

There is only one problem with this new alternate character stuff: the
semi-graphics '|' and '-' will be used only if you draw your box with
'|' and '-' (or NULLS) but the corners will always be done using the
semi-graphics, even if you try to erase the box using spaces
(box(win, ' ', ' ')).

Chris
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