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From: stefan@spcc386.UUCP (Stefan Posthuma)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Terminfo question
Message-ID: <255@spcc386.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 11:20:18 GMT
Reply-To: stefan@spcc386.UUCP (Stefan Posthuma)
Organization: SPC Company, Heeswijk-Dinther, the Netherlands
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On Xenix 386 (2.3.1), I am writing a screen-oriented program. Now I want to 
get rid of the cursor on the screen. Since all terminals we use can do this,
I added the 'civis' and the 'cnormal' descriptions to the terminfo database
entries.

So 'tput civis' and 'tput cnormal' work perfectly well.

But now I want to use these capabilities in my program. I haven't found any
standard Terminfo routines to do this, and I don't know how to read the
Terminfo database directly without a lot of trouble.

Right now I use 'system("tput civis")' calls to control the cursor, but
I don't like the extra processes and the time it takes.

	Any suggestions?


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