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Commands Needed for Boxing Characters (Linux)
Not all terminals have special boxing characters. If your terminal does not have them, hyphens (-) and vertical bars (|) are used instead. Using boxing characters, however, greatly improves the appearance of forms using table fields.
Command
Description
VT100 Example
ld
Initializes terminal to draw solid lines.
ld=\E)0
ls
Interprets subsequent characters for drawing solid lines.
ls=\016
le
Interprets subsequent characters as regular characters.
le=\017
qa through qk
Boxing characters; see the next table.
 
The table below describes the boxing characters qa through qk mentioned in the previous table:
Command
Description
VT100 Example
qa
Lower right corner of a box
qa=j
qb
Upper right corner of a box
qb=k
qc
Upper left corner of a box
qc=l
qd
Lower left corner of a box
qd=m
qe
Crossing lines
qe=n
qf
Horizontal line
qf=q
qg
Left T (stem points right)
qg=t
qh
Right T (stem points left)
qh=u
qi
Bottom T (like upside down T)
qi=v
qj
Top T (like a regular T)
qj=w
qk
Vertical line
qk=x
Last modified date: 04/03/2024