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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: extra tput parameters
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.045847.4158@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 15 Mar 91 04:58:47 GMT
References: <3249@meaddata.meaddata.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <3249@meaddata.meaddata.com> by franz@meaddata.com (Franz Weckesser):
+---------------
| I've written a shell script which does some cursor positioning using
| the tput cup capability.  Works great on my sun, but when I move it to
| other machines (a sequent or an ibm RT), tput gives a usage error due
| to the extra arguments (the cursor position coordinates).  I.e on my
+---------------

Prior to V.3.2 (V.3.1?), tput didn't do a tparm automatically.  This made it
less than useful.  This restriction *was* documented, however.

If you run Perl, watch for my terminfo-in-Perl routines in comp.lang.perl.

		&setupterm;
		print &tputs(&tparm(&cursor_address, 0, 0));

++Brandon
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