ASCII menu in loader/frames.4th

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:07:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > One could enable use of this with some loader.conf variable like
> > loader_frames="ascii" or (default) loader_frames="cp437", possibly
> > even a "vt100" type (using VT100 line-drawing characters).
> 
> It should probably be the default.

Which should be the default?

> > I'm not familiar with forth, otherwise I'd come up with a patch.  Maybe
> > I'll try learning it (argh, another language to learn...), or hack
> > around a bit.
> 
> The box-drawing code is in frames.4th and should be fairly easy to
> understand and modify even if you don't know 4th.

I'll spend some time this week hacking at it and do my best to provide
patches once I manage to figure it out.  Thanks for the encouragement,
and the information.

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