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From: hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: initscr mungs tty mode in pcomm
Summary: discussion of 'tput init'
Keywords: curses, init, tput
Message-ID: <3225@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 88 21:26:12 GMT
References: <847@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> <21900001@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (XT1554000-Tony L. Hansen;LZ 3B-315;3207)
Organization: AT&T-IS Labs, Lincroft, NJ
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< I understand that newer versions of Unix have a "init" option to the
< "tput" command to perform all the initialization with only one argument.
< For example:
<
<	tputs init
<	tabs

Actually, it is

	tput init

and the program tabs need not be called, because 'tput init' will set the
tab stops as part of its initialization process (except if it#8). For those
familiar with tset, 'tput init' does all of the terminal initialization
setups that tset did.

This option to tput was added in System V release 3.0.

					Tony Hansen
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