Re: LYNX-DEV Patch for alternate character set on Digital UNIX

[T.E.Dickey]

> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
>  
> > > It turns out that the existing configure test for line-drawing characters 
> > >  
> > > under some forms of curses (e.g., Digital UNIX) doesn't work; their 
> > > flavor  
> > > of the acs_map array is _acs_map.  Below is a patch against 2-8 to add an 
> > >  
> > > additional test for this.    
> > thanks (I've been working on a guest account admin'd by Martin Mokrejs 
> > <address@hidden>, and can test this).  
> >    
> > but do we indeed have a sign-extension problem there also?  (sounds more 
> > like Lynx's code needs some unsigned's sprinkled around). 
>  
> Lynx builds and runs on Alphas.  What would cause a sign extension 
> problem (i.e., give me some cases to test)? 
I commented based on some of the logic in the patch - it's fixing a problem
that Klaus noticed while using Linux console on Solaris (via telnet).  The
box characters used codes >127, and he was getting sign-extension (which
made unusual characters).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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