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From: rochester!ur-valhalla!badri Sep 19 17:31:33 EDT 1986
To: whom it may concern
Subject: Public domain tput release 2

This revision has undergone major changes after the first one, mainly
because the first release was not compatible with SV tput.
New features are:

(1) Totally different capability naming conventions from first
    release, but equivalent to SV conventions.

(2) Error messages are properly reported.

(3) Can be used to query for properties of other terminals also.

Problems still not properly handled:
Limited features: Handles almost all termcap features, but is still
only a subset of the latest version tput because terminfo has not been used.
On the other hand if terminfo was available, most probably tput would
be too!

Thanks to Mark Horton @ cbosgd for suggestions.
Badri Lokanathan
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From: rochester!ur-valhalla!badri  Aug 28 10:02
To: whom it may concern
Subject: tput instructions

This program is supposed to be equivalent to the system V utility
tput, which handles screen parameters from termcap. It may take inputs
in a slightly different format (basically because I wrote this program
without actually having worked on tput.) Any suggestions/modifications
are welcome.

Your system is assumed to have termlib and associated functions (I
wrote the program on BSD 4.2, assuming that termlib was fairly
standard.) There is one include file in the program - sgtty.h which
should be present. If not, I hope an equivalent exists.
Other than that, the code should be fairly portable.

The make file is delibrately trivial. It does not do any installation
- just compilation.

make

will make tput in the current directory.

make man

will make a man page in tput.doc.


tput, written by Badri Lokanathan, is in the public domain, and may be
used by any person or organization, in any way and for any purpose.
There is no warranty of merchantability nor any warranty of fitness for
a particular purpose nor any other warranty, either express or implied,
as to the accuracy of the enclosed materials or as to their suitability
for any particular purpose.  Accordingly, the author assumes no respon-
sibility for their use by the recipient.   Further, the author assumes
no obligation to furnish any assistance of any kind whatsoever, or to
furnish any additional information or documentation.