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- From: rochester!ur-valhalla!badri Sep 19 17:31:33 EDT 1986
- To: whom it may concern
- Subject: Public domain tput release 2
-
- This revision has undergone major changes after the first one, mainly
- because the first release was not compatible with SV tput.
- New features are:
-
- (1) Totally different capability naming conventions from first
- release, but equivalent to SV conventions.
-
- (2) Error messages are properly reported.
-
- (3) Can be used to query for properties of other terminals also.
-
- Problems still not properly handled:
- Limited features: Handles almost all termcap features, but is still
- only a subset of the latest version tput because terminfo has not been used.
- On the other hand if terminfo was available, most probably tput would
- be too!
-
- Thanks to Mark Horton @ cbosgd for suggestions.
- Badri Lokanathan
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- From: rochester!ur-valhalla!badri Aug 28 10:02
- To: whom it may concern
- Subject: tput instructions
-
- This program is supposed to be equivalent to the system V utility
- tput, which handles screen parameters from termcap. It may take inputs
- in a slightly different format (basically because I wrote this program
- without actually having worked on tput.) Any suggestions/modifications
- are welcome.
-
- Your system is assumed to have termlib and associated functions (I
- wrote the program on BSD 4.2, assuming that termlib was fairly
- standard.) There is one include file in the program - sgtty.h which
- should be present. If not, I hope an equivalent exists.
- Other than that, the code should be fairly portable.
-
- The make file is delibrately trivial. It does not do any installation
- - just compilation.
-
- make
-
- will make tput in the current directory.
-
- make man
-
- will make a man page in tput.doc.
-
-
- tput, written by Badri Lokanathan, is in the public domain, and may be
- used by any person or organization, in any way and for any purpose.
- There is no warranty of merchantability nor any warranty of fitness for
- a particular purpose nor any other warranty, either express or implied,
- as to the accuracy of the enclosed materials or as to their suitability
- for any particular purpose. Accordingly, the author assumes no respon-
- sibility for their use by the recipient. Further, the author assumes
- no obligation to furnish any assistance of any kind whatsoever, or to
- furnish any additional information or documentation.
-