Re: Fwd: [huma@: tput problem]

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:45:25AM -0700, Zeyd Ben-Halim wrote:
> Note: forwarded message attached.
> 
> I've found some strange behaviour with the tput command:
> 
> 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.

The linux terminfo doesn't specify 'rep'.
So tput doesn't have anything to do.

> the ncurses version i'm using is 5.2.20010303
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> David Gómez

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