IA80024@MAINE.BITNET (Nicholas C. Hester) (05/14/91)
Hi, I'm very new to shell, and I know this is a very simple question, but I would like to draw a box and after the box is drawn, draw another box within it. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to tell the computer that I want the screen to remain and not scroll. We are running a 3b2 with SysV r.3.1. I'm hoping it's not a machine depend problem. Please, reply by e-mail. Thanx for any help you can give me. :) -+- -+ Nicholas C. Hester | | ia80024@Maine.Bitnet | "They can't make me graduate. I'm tenured." | ia80024@Maine.Maine.edu | - me | -+- -+
dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) (05/15/91)
In article <91133.211948IA80024@MAINE.BITNET> IA80024@MAINE.BITNET (Nicholas C. Hester) writes: >I'm very new to shell, and I know this is a very simple question, but >I would like to draw a box and after the box is drawn, draw another >box within it. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to tell the computer >that I want the screen to remain and not scroll. We are running a 3b2 This is not a simple question, screen and cursor control are not provided in the standard utilities. You'll have to write a C-program using curses, terminfo, or termcap. Or maybe something in a souped-up perl. Either way, you have to handle the screen yourself in your program. -- Dave Eisen dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU 1101 San Antonio Road, Suite 102 (Gang-of-Four is being taken off the net) Mountain View, CA 94043 (415) 967-5644