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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: using curses from a script?
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Date: 18 Nov 88 08:55:30 GMT
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In article <7668@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov> writes:
>Has anyone written a tool to perform curses functions from a shell script?

System V has a command "tput [-T<termtype>] <capability>".
This doesn't, strictly speaking, perform _Curses_ functions, but sends
strings from the terminfo data-base.  (Since Curses relies on keeping
copies of window contents in memory, it is not clear that you _can_ do
Curses things without having a single process to do it.  You could try
creating a "curses server" which would create a named pipe and listen
for commands on it:
	curses=`make_pipe_and_fork_curses`
	...
	echo setscrreg 10 20 >$curses
Not for the faint of heart.)