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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What's wrong with tput? fbsd 2.1 Date: 22 Jan 1996 23:07:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4e15c3$bps@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4dp2e5$k88@mel.hargray.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 jwb@mel.hargray.com (Joe Beiter) writes: > I'm trying to move an application over to FreeBSD 2.1 (the problem existed > on 2.05 too) from osf/1 and Linux that uses tput. Its a menuing application > that is in perl and uses tput calls to put stuff onto the screen. The termcap model used by BSDs is much simpler than terminfo. Can you post a few examples of how you use it in Perl? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)