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From: kalash@ingres.Berkeley.EDU.ARPA (Joe Kalash)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Using parameterized terminfo(4) capabilities in tput(1)
Message-ID: <393@ingres.Berkeley.EDU.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 21-Aug-86 00:48:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 21 00:48:50 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Aug-86 04:13:55 EDT
References: <1206@kitty.UUCP> <1141@ttrdc.UUCP>
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Reply-To: kalash@ingres.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Joe Kalash)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Keywords: terminfo(4), tput(1)

In article <1141@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>In article <1206@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>>	I have never been able to get any parameterized capabilities (such
>>as ``cuf'', ``vpa'', etc.) to work with tput(1).  I have tried all manner of
>>syntax for passing parameters with no success.
>You can't.  Tput is not set up to handle parameterized capabilities.

	The V.3 version of tput does allow parameter passing, not
that that probably does you any good...


			Joe Kalash
			kalash@berkeley
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