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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: using curses from a script?
Summary: Tput in SVR3 is parameterized
Message-ID: <949@vsi.COM>
Date: 24 Nov 88 02:10:30 GMT
References: <7668@well.UUCP> <1247@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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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?

In article <1247@vsedev.VSE.COM>, logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes:
> 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.

System V Release 3.1 (maybe 3.0?) has a tput that does
parameterization the right way:

	$ tput 12 37 ; echo foobar

centers our favorite phrase on most screens (the general case,
using `tput lines` and such is left as an exercise to the reader).

     Steve
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