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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Curses again
Keywords: curses, underline
Message-ID: <397@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 18 Apr 91 20:14:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.141346.11719@molienergy.bc.ca>
Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
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Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF
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In article <1991Apr17.141346.11719@molienergy.bc.ca> markr@resrch.molienergy.bc.ca (Mark Reid) writes:
>Has anyone got underline to work in curses? I have tried and it appears
>that the driver supplied doesn't support this. If this is the case, does
>ODT 1.1 support it or can I get other drivers that do.
>
>Thanks for any info in advance.
>
>Mark Reid.

Which curses? Terminfo or termcap?

The changes you need are to the 'us' and 'ue' termcap entries
or similar terminfo entries.

Which terminal? a CGA/EGA/VGA?

Note that color AT-class displays do not support underline in
character modes (a *hard*ware limitation).  You could do it by
writing graphically to the screen and drawing your own
underlines, but that isn't in the curses paradigm at'all :-).

You might try experiemnting with setting us and ue entries to
change colors when the underline attribute is used.
 
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