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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How does one refresh a terminal screen in SysV/386 curses ?
Keywords: curses terminal refresh restore screen
Message-ID: <1990Feb25.003802.14247@virtech.uucp>
Date: 25 Feb 90 00:38:02 GMT
References: <342@ntpdvp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <342@ntpdvp1.UUCP> samc@ntpdvp1.UUCP (Sam Christie) writes:
>Dial up users find that noise really trashes the screen, so it
>would be nice to refresh it at a certain key stroke, say cntl-R.
>Since the entire application gets all input from one of two
>'C' functions, we would like to build the refresh logic into 
>those two places.  Does anyone know how to get curses to send its
>entire terminal buffer out ?

Either of the following should work:

1. Just touchwin() and wnoutrefresh() each window, followed by a doupdate().
   Of course, this requires the knowledge of what windows are on the screen.

2. scr_dump(/tmp/screen.[pid]),  followed by scr_restore(same_filename), 
   followed by doupdate()


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