goer@midway.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) (06/16/90)
I'm having a little trouble understanding how the curson addressing capabilities are specified in /etc/termcap. %d seems pretty clear, as do %2, %3, and %. I don't believe I am grasping how the following escapes work: %+x %n %B %D The manual seems to be telling me that %+x adds x to the valued spe- cified. X thus becomes the offset. What sort of type checking is done on x, though? Are there size restrictions? If I want to spe- cify an offset of 1, say, can I write %+\001? Do I use a character? With %n, %B, and %D I just don't understand what sort of terminals would need to use them and why.