dave@ucms.UUCP (Dave Settle) (01/12/89)
I'm having a problem using curses(3X), with terminals which use padding.
Instead of the padding being _interpreted_ by the curses routines, it simply
gets plonked on the screen, leaving it full of '$<5>' sequences where
I've used cursor motion. (The definition of 'cm' in the terminfo file includes
the string '$<5>', as padding requirement.)
The line concerned is:
putp(tparm(cursor_address, row, col));
In the manual, it clearly states that 'putp' calls 'tputs' which
"appl[ies] padding info to [the string] ..."
However, clearly the padding information is NOT being 'applied', but merely
displayed.
This happens on all the System V machines I have tried (Convergent, HP-UX,
IBM 6150 [ok - don't tell me], Unisys 5000/95), so clearly I'm doing something
wrong.
Anybody enlighten me?
Cheers,
Dave.
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