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? Message-ID: <19970327211524.IM61026@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970327043947.41187@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>; from John-Mark Gurney on Mar 27, 1997 04:39:47 -0800 References: <19970327043947.41187@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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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. ;-)
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