Curses bug in tput(1) and tiget(3) in System V Release 3.1

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1 total messages Started by Stephen J. Friedl Thu, 22 Sep 1988 03:52

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Author: Stephen J. Friedl
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1988 03:52

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Hi net.folks,

     There is a bug in tiget(3) in the curses library, and it affects
the tput(1) command.  A handful of capabilities added in System V Release
3.1 are unavailable to tiget(3), and they are:

	sclk		set clock
	dclk		delete clock
	rmclk		remove clock
	cwin		create window
	wingo		goto window
	hup		hangup
	dial		dial phone
	qdial		quick dial
	tone		tone dial
	pulse		pulse dial
	hook		flash hook
	pause		fixed pause
	wait		wait for tone
	u0		user string 0
	...
	u9		user string 9


These are at the end of the table of strings, and they aren't
in my terminfo manual. The bummer, of cource, is that user-defined
strings aren't available as `tput u1'.

Tony Hansen @ AT&T has confirmed that this is indeed a bug,
and it has been fixed in System V Release 3.2.  The source
code fix is supposed to be easy.

-- 
Steve Friedl    V-Systems, Inc.  +1 714 545 6442    3B2-kind-of-guy
friedl@vsi.com     {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl    attmail!vsi!friedl
------[I'm on vacation in Ohio from 26-Sep to 10-Oct 1988]----------

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