Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bria!mike From: mike@bria.AIX (Mike Stefanik/78125) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: save and regerate the current screen before and after a command Message-ID: <311@bria.AIX> Date: 4 Jan 91 02:47:41 GMT References: <1991Jan3.021447.5447@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu> <1991Jan3.044011.22105@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Reply-To: mike@bria.UUCP (Mike Stefanik) Distribution: usa Organization: Briareus Corporation, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 19 In article spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves) writes: [question about saving the screen] >That saves and restores (with screenload) the framebuffer; I think >Shiping meant the terminal. Curses(3v) does this for you >automatically. I don't think this is what was being asked; curses will allow you to preserve your screen when *inside* an application, but I believe that the question revolves around preserving the screen "as is" prior to the application starting, and then restoring the screen when the application exits. Unless you have a bitmapped device which you could open and read, or your tty driver uses streams, I don't think this could be done. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Stefanik, Systems Engineer (JOAT), Briareus Corporation UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike "If it was hard to code, it should be harder to use!"