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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: about setting that prompt for csh...
Message-ID: <2771@kappl.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 15 Jun 89 22:50:51 GMT
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Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton) writes:
\In .login, after the TERMCAP entry is set, I have the following lines:
\
\set invs=`tput smso`
\set inve=`tput rmso`

Try:
	set	invs = "`tput smso`"
	set	inve = "`tput rmso`"

This will avoid csh interpreting the output of `tput'.
For the ANSI terminal:

	so=^[[7m
	se=^[[m

Both strings contain the wildcard character '['. In both cases the
corresponding ']' is missing. Hence csh decides "Missing ]." and the final
output of each backquote command will be empty, whereas the error messages
somehow get lost. Yet another bug.
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