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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Terminfo question
Message-ID: <24AA1B48.28510@marob.masa.com>
Date: 29 Jun 89 12:51:18 GMT
References: <255@spcc386.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC,  New York City
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In article <255@spcc386.UUCP> stefan@spcc386.UUCP (Stefan Posthuma) writes:
>[... re: cursor visbility control ...]
>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.

The AT&T man entry (sorry, no Xenix manuals handy) for terminfo defines
the function `curs_set':

curs_set(visibility)	The cursor state is set to invisible, normal, or
			very visibile for _visibility_ equal to 0, 1, or 2.
			The previous visibility is returned (or -1 for
			terminals w/out the required support).

BTW, a quick `nm -ng /lib/386/Slibtinfo.a' shows entry points for
curs_set(). Documented or not, the function exists in the Xenix terminfo.

--
Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com