Fwd: [huma@: tput problem]

[Zeyd Ben-Halim]

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> Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:47:23 +0200
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> Hi,
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> I've found some strange behaviour with the tput command:
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> The problem appears with the capability 'rep' (TERM is linux). Tput seems
> to do nothing when asked to repeat a character a number of times, but the
> value returned by tput is always 0, so the capability 'rep' exists for the term
> linux. I checked the linux terminfo entry and 'rep' is included, then, do
> you know why the 'tput rep' doesn't repeat a character ? It just does nothing.
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> the ncurses version i'm using is 5.2.20010303
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> Thanks,
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> David Gómez
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>  whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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