someone once showed me the use of tput in awk to manipulate the screen
eg:
To re-type on the same line set variables "lnup" and "ceol" in a BEGIN
by:
"tput cuu1" | getline lnup
close("tput cuu1")
"tput el" | getline ceol
close("tput el")
then issue print commands for "lnup" and "ceol" when you need to
Now I think this is pretty neat and am wondering what else I can do
However, this guy (who was only here on shrot term consultancey) is now
long gone
My question is:
Where on earth is a list of items that you can use for tput? I've
checked out its man page, stty & terminfo man pages - even tried "stty
-a" and can't find any reference to things such as "ccu1" or "el" as
used above (which I know work).
(BTW - yes - I've heard that perl is wonderful - but at the moment I
want to come to terms with awk)
TIA
Dave
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Received on Tue Apr 29 1997 - 23:52:40 NZST