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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Curses Bug? (4.2 BSD)
Message-ID: <158@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 09:10:51 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.158
Posted: Thu Jan  2 09:10:51 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jan-86 07:03:06 EST
References: <637@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP> <151@hadron.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Lines: 19
Keywords: curses, 4.2, bsd
Xref: linus net.unix-wizards:13459 net.bugs.4bsd:1608
Summary: Oops.

In article <151@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>In article <637@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP> brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway) writes:
>>                                                 ...  In a program which
>>uses curses I want to use a terminal capability which curses has not
>>read into its external capability list; namely I want the value of the
>>cs (scrolling region) and bl (audible bell) capability strings.
>Try using:
>	boolean tgetflag(name);
>	int tgetnum(name);
>	char *tgetstr(name);

But first read man 3 termcap.  That last is tgetstr(name, &namebuf).
It seems that all of these require a first call to tgetent(buf, term).
Don't forget to check all return values for error, and don't call any
of those three routines in a context in which tgetent()'s buf is no
longer valid.
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}