lourdes@delgeo.nl (Lourdes Gallastegui) (06/06/91)
Hello everybody. I'm not a programmer, please excuse me if I don't use the right words or my question is too silly. When running a C Shell script based mostly on echo and set commands (the user gets consecutive questions to choose among several options and the answers are redirected to awk, grep, ex, etc) I would like to be able to refresh the screen when write/mail messages arrive in the middle of my interactive script session. I've thought of doing mesg n but I believe that root can still write to my terminal after disabling myself in this way. Most messages would come from root, so this is not a solution. Changing the write permission of my /dev/tty would have the same problem, and I'm not sure if it wouldn't mess it up. I thought of doing control-z, then clear, then fg, but of course all my echo's are gone and the user will be lost not knowing what question s/he's answering to. I'm using a CONVEX machine, and our UNIX release is 9.0. My terminal is a vt100n. Thanks in advance. E-mail is preferable. Lourdes -- # # # # # # # # # # # # <lourdes@delgeo.nl> # # # # # # # # # # # # # # <lourdes@delgeo.uucp> or !uunet!hp4nl!delgeo!lourdes # # She that will not when she may, when she would she shall have nay #