Box attributes in terminfo

Scott Holt scott at prism.gatech.EDU
Fri Mar 8 14:53:36 AEST 1991


Under AIX 3.1, IBM has extened curses and, in addition, added a few
fields not normally found in terminfo on other system. Among the fields
added are box1, box2, batt1 and batt2 - they have, however, neglected
to document these fields in any significant manner. They do get 
mentioned, very briefly, in the info entry for the terminfo file.

Apparently, however, these are used - in particular, by info. Without
the box attributes in a terminfo entry, info draws garbage on the screen
when trying to drawy boxes. In addition, despite other attributes which
one would think define the graphics character set, stuff like smit
still simulates boxes using characters...

any clues - or is viewing info on any thing other than a "supported"
terminal a lost cause?

- Scott



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