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From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Box in a box
Message-ID: <1991May14.180039.15595@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 May 91 18:00:39 GMT
References: <91133.211948IA80024@MAINE.BITNET>
Organization: Sequoia Peripherals, Inc.
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In article <91133.211948IA80024@MAINE.BITNET> IA80024@MAINE.BITNET (Nicholas C. Hester) writes:
>I'm very new to shell, and I know this is a very simple question, but
>I would like to draw a box and after the box is drawn, draw another
>box within it.  Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to tell the computer
>that I want the screen to remain and not scroll.  We are running a 3b2

This is not a simple question, screen and cursor control are not provided
in the standard utilities. You'll have to write a C-program using
curses, terminfo, or termcap. Or maybe something in a souped-up perl.
Either way, you have to handle the screen yourself in your program.




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