Subject: Re: amiga console vs. vt220 graphics characters
To: None <talmage@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Boehnisch <billy@psycho.uni-paderborn.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 11/23/1998 16:11:45
Hi!
>Is there a trick to making the Amiga NetBSD console display the line drawing
>graphics characters? I'm using Midnight Commander on my A3000 and it displays
>letters in place of the graphics characters. For my application, TERM=vt220.
>I'm hoping that there's a magical, new termcap entry for the Amiga console
>that will display the graphics characters the right way. I'm getting by with
>'mc -a' but it's not as nice as I'd like it to be.
AFAIK, There are no graphics characters for the console. It's an ISO
Latin-1 character set with european special letters in the places where
DOS-PC's used to have 'em. You have to create your own character set and
compile it into the kernel if you really need line drawing in the console.
Just my $.02,
Michael B"ohnisch