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Re: aptitude misconfigure?



On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
> On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote:
> >There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing in Aptitude:
> >
> >         lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
> >         xReally quit Aptitude?x
> >         x  [ Yes ]    [ No ]  x
> >         mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj
> >
> >and others don't.
> >
> >Can anyone tell me what I did to make some of them do that to their ncurses boxes?
> >
> >Aptitude is the only place I've seen this (yet), and I've played with locales and googled and looked at man pages -- no joy. It has something to do with the VT-100 'graphics' chars, I think, but I can't figure out how to fix it...
> >
> >TIA
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Check the Preferences dialog in aptitude. This feature is controlled
> by the item:
> 
> [] Prompt for confirmation at exit

LOL, I believe he is referring to the strange characters!

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