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1. Instead of drawing lines for the thread tree, I see `mq'. Why?
There are a couple of reasons for this. The simplest may be that the
font that you are using does not support line drawing characters.
Simply switching fonts to a dec-vt220 compatible font may solve the
problem. This is usually the case with Windows telnet applications.
Another reason for this is that your terminfo file may not be set up
properly. The obvious solution is fix the terminfo file. However, this
may not be possible without the correct tools (untic and tic) and many
systems do not have those tools installed.
Although slang is a terminfo based system, there is another solution
based on termcap if you are using version 0.99.18 of slang or later.
First of all, get a termcap entry that contains the appropriate
capabilities for an alternate character set, that is, the termcap `ac',
`ae', `as', and possibly `eA' capabilities. Let's call this file
`my_termcap'. Then do:
setenv TERMCAP `pwd`/my_termcap
eval `tset -s terminal-name`
(Replace `terminal-name' by your terminal name). `tset' will then read
and parse the my_termcap file and set the TERMCAP variable
appropriately. You will want to put this in your .login file.
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