xsimon@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Simon Brown) (08/09/87)
In article <144@auscso.UUCP> knutson6@auscso.UUCP (John Knutson) writes: >I was looking through termcap.c to see if I could figure out what all the >garbage was when something was thrown, and I came up with this: > if(!flags.nonull) > tputs("50", 1, xputc); > > /* cbosgd!cbcephus!pds for SYS V R2 */ > /* is this terminfo, or what? */ > /* tputs("$<50>", 1, xputc); */ >Looking in the man page for term, it says that the $<50> is padding >information. But, it still comes out with $<1> on the vt100 doing an >inventory. Could this be because you MUST have two digits? >Inquiring minds want to know.... No, this is because of the gross way that highlighting is done for the inventory - it does a (approximately) sprintf(str, "%s%s%s", HI, message, HE) (where HI, HE are the highlight-start, highlight-end strings), and then prints it out directly - doesn't use tputs! No wonder the $<number> happens if you have an output-delay for highlighting (as the vt100 does)! This must happen even using termcaps. I've fixed it here, but in a really gross way - so I won't post it. -- ---------------------------------- | Simon Brown | UUCP: seismo!mcvax!ukc!its63b!simon | Department of Computer Science | JANET: simon@uk.ac.ed.its63b | University of Edinburgh, | ARPA: simon%its63b.ed.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk | Scotland, UK. | ---------------------------------- "Life's like that, you know"