Subject: Re: tput cm
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 01/21/1994 19:49:21
> The following patch adds a call to tgoto() for tput cm (and even tput
> cup).  I needed this for some fancy shell scripts that work very
> nicely on other systems...

that patch is not a very good solution at all the the problem.
The problem is that termcap's strings may require arguments,
and tput doesn't do anything about them.

the solution is to fix tput to understand arguments.

If you come up with such a fix, and it's *clean*, i'll put it
into tput.  For now, i'm going to file a bug report for the problem.


cgd

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