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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Extensible terminal definitions (Re: JRComm (Was Re: AMIGA too slow for speeds higher than 9600 Baud? HELP!))
Message-ID: <5673@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 8 May 90 17:31:40 GMT
References: <1494@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <24552@usc.edu>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <24552@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
> Termcap and Terminfo have no concept of a status line.

Termcap doesn't have a "concept" of anything, so you can always add your
own private sequences. For status lines on televideos (for example), just
use (assuming you use ZS for start, ZE for end, and ZL for length):

	:ZS=\Ef:ZE=\r:ZL=78:
Or, if you like keeping the cursor position and screen mode:
	:ZS=\E_00:ZE=\r:ZL=6:

Useful enough with shell scripts. Too bad terminfo isn't extensible.
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