Re: [Lifelines-dev] Boxes

[John F. C. <JCHBN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

Perry wrote:
> I thought the difference (the decision in LifeLines) was a compile
> time decision.

I thought so too, but that's clearly not true.

>    Are you comparing when you compile under "Shelltool"
> versus when you compile under "xterm" ?

No.  All the compiles have been done in a window provided by xterm.  In
terms of box characters, I get the following results:

    Window           3.0.6      3.0.9 (last week)

    xterm           "true"        xq...
    shelltool        |-+          |-+

Part of the difference is caused by an environment variable that defaults
according to the window provider, but can be reset by the user.  It gets
more complicated.  The default TERM setting is denoted in the table below
by an asterisk.

    Window(TERM)         3.0.6      3.0.9 (last week)

    xterm(xterm*)        "true"        xq...
    xterm(sun-cmd)        |-+          |-+
    xterm(vt100)         "true"        xq...

    shelltool(xterm)      xq...        xq...
    shelltool(sun-cmd*)   |-+          |-+
    shelltool(vt100)      xq...        xq...

However, there is another difference I just noticed.  With 3.0.6, the
box around the whole LL active screen is always 80 columns wide,
regardless of the size of the window, but 3.0.9 grabs as much screen
as it finds.  This is independent of the window provider (xterm and
shelltool are both resizable and both get the same behavior from LL in
this regard).

                                         John Chandler