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41 .Nd curses border drawing routines
58 .Fn box "WINDOW *win" "chtype vertical" "chtype horizontal"
72 These functions draw borders around
74 or around the specified window.
78 function draws a border around
80 using the characters given as arguments to the function.
87 are the characters used to draw the left, right, top and bottom sides,
95 are the characters used to draw the top-left, top-right, bottom-left
96 and bottom-right corners, respectively.
97 If any of the characters have a text portion that is 0 then a default
98 alternate character set character is used for that character.
99 Note that even though the text portion of the argument is 0, the argument
100 can still be used to specify the attributes for that portion of the border.
101 The following table shows the default characters for each argument:
103 .Bl -column "ls" -offset indent
117 excepting that the border is drawn around the specified window.
121 command draws a box around the window given in
125 character for the vertical lines and the
127 character for the horizontal lines.
128 The corner characters of this box will be the defaults as described for
131 Passing characters with text portion that is 0 to
133 will result in the same defaults as those for
137 Functions returning pointers will return
139 if an error is detected.
140 The functions that return an int will return one of the following
143 .Bl -tag -width ERR -compact
145 The function completed successfully.
147 An error occurred in the function.
150 .Xr curses_attributes 3 ,
155 Curses library complies with the X/Open Curses specification, part of the
156 Single Unix Specification.
158 The Curses package appeared in