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Subject: Re: using curses from a script?
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Date: 23 Nov 88 16:12:55 GMT
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In article <1247@vsedev.VSE.COM> logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes:
>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?
>Have you ever heard of tput(1) under System V?  It almost does
>what you want with the exception that you can't give it screen
>addressing arguments.  Instead you can say "tput cup" and it will
>give you something like:  
>
>	^[[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH
>
>that you can parse pretty easily.

On my 3B2 running SVR3.1, I can write 

	tput cup 10 10

and the cursor will be positioned as expected.  No further parsing is
required.

Just a guest here - in reality
Carl Brandauer
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