Ian Goldby wrote:

> Anyway, on an IRIX box at work, I use 'tput bold' to print my shell
> prompt in bold, and 'tput sgr0' to reset back to normal. Since bold
> text is rendered in yellow, this is a nice arrangement.

The NetBSD tput understands termcap attributes and not terminfo
attributes as the IRIX one does.  Try something like

	tput md ; echo foo bar ; tput me

for bold under NetBSD.  Use man 5 termcap for a list of attributes.

Simon.
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