jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Jerry Peek) (10/13/89)
QUESTION: What does "more" use in the termcap to decide when to beep? DETAILS: I'm writing a shell script that uses "more" to show documents screenful-by-screenful. But some users don't set their TERM environment variable -- or, they use dumb terminals. In that case, "more" won't print a prompt on each screen -- it just beeps at the end of each screen. I'd like to test the termcap before starting "more". (I can read the termcap from a shell script -- I have a copy of "tcap", the great program by Lyle McElhaney that lets you do this.) If "more" is going to beep at the user, I'd like to echo a message that says "at the beep, press space to continue or q to quit." But what does "more" check in the termcap to decide when to beep? This is a Gould NP1 running UTX/32 (4.3BSD-like). Thanks a lot. --Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu///JDPEEK@SUVM.BITNET///GEnie: J.PEEK1 +1 315 443-3995