scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) (03/08/91)
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
abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) (03/08/91)
In article <23850@hydra.gatech.EDU> scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) writes: > >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 The IBM document Item 9VRCJ Document ID Q519417 Title: 901217 HOWTO AIX: MODIFYING TERMINFO DESCRIPTIONS FOR OEM TERMINALS FOR USE WITH INFOEXPLORER gives a little information on the box1 terminfo field. It says: box1=LhRvrl where: L = character user to draw upper left corner h = character used to draw horizontal lines R = character used to draw upper right corner v = character used to draw vertical lines r = character used to draw lower right corner l = character used to draw lower left corner As an example, box1+-+|++ draws boxes with `+' at the corners, `-' in horizontal lines and `|' in vertical lines. Box1 is the only terminfo field this document describes. It refers the reader to "the TERMINFO documentation in the Files Reference Manual," but I think that's what infoexplorer finds when you do a search on "box1". Vic Abell, <abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu>