From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 27 12:21:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA18313 for current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA18307 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA12352; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 21:21:17 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA18445; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 21:15:24 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970327211524.IM61026@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 21:15:24 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Current) Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu (John-Mark Gurney) Subject: Re: problem with tput being to strict? References: <19970327043947.41187@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970327043947.41187@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>; from John-Mark Gurney on Mar 27, 1997 04:39:47 -0800 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John-Mark Gurney wrote: > hello... it seems that tput is being a bit to strict on it's interpetation > of escape characters... if I run tput init with TERM=tek4107... I will > get this error message: > tput: unknown % escape `!' for capability `is' The tek4107 `is' entry is buggy. `%' is a special character inside a string capability (see the `cm' capability to learn what it's good for). The %'s should be replaced by \045. -- 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. ;-)