extra tput parameters
Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR
allbery at NCoast.ORG
Fri Mar 15 14:58:47 AEST 1991
As quoted from <3249 at meaddata.meaddata.com> by franz at meaddata.com (Franz Weckesser):
+---------------
| I've written a shell script which does some cursor positioning using
| the tput cup capability. Works great on my sun, but when I move it to
| other machines (a sequent or an ibm RT), tput gives a usage error due
| to the extra arguments (the cursor position coordinates). I.e on my
+---------------
Prior to V.3.2 (V.3.1?), tput didn't do a tparm automatically. This made it
less than useful. This restriction *was* documented, however.
If you run Perl, watch for my terminfo-in-Perl routines in comp.lang.perl.
&setupterm;
print &tputs(&tparm(&cursor_address, 0, 0));
++Brandon
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