NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/unix/wizards/3635

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From: [e-mail] (Oleg Girko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How to turn off termcap scrolling regions ("cs")
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Date: 16 Aug 92 14:03:55 GMT
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[e-mail] (Paul D. Smith) writes:

| I have a piece of code which uses termcap to set a scrolling region
| (if available, such as in vt100).  My problem is I can't find a
| portable way to *turn off* the region again.
|
| Given tgetstr("cs", buf), on my OS tgoto(buf, -1, -1); seems to do the
| trick.  However, on another OS I know of -1,-1 doesn't work, but
| tgoto(buf, 0, 0) does: however 0,0 doesn't work on my system :(.

This seems to work properly:

       LINES = tgetnum ("li");
       ...
       tgoto (buf, 0, LINES-1)

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