Hi James, That's strange. I wouldn't think that there would be a difference in the escape sequences between platforms. Between terminal emulators perhaps but not between platforms. But what do I know?
You know you can use: WIDTH=`tput cols` HEIGHT=`tput lines` to get the terminal window width and height. Anyway, thanks for todays "social bash". 'Twas fun. best r. Pall On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:16 PM, james morris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's a patch attached which adds minor additional functionality to the > re_store_present* scripts posted here today. > > for the following scripts: > > re_store_present2 > re_store_present3 > re_store_present4 > re_store_present5b > > the patch adds the command line argument -width n where n is a custom > width you wish to trim to. adds glitchymess if n > terminal width. > > ie ./re_store_present3 -width 85 > > for the following scripts: > > re_store_present4 > re_store_present5b > > the patch also adds a second command line argument -glitch where if > specified, the escape sequence to erase characters left from the last > v-scroll is replaced with "xxxx". the escape sequence itself has also > been modified to work on the amd64 platform where it appeared to not > work - don't know if this breaks things for x86 though. > > ------ > > to apply the patch, make sure all previous scripts are located in the > same directory. cd into that directory. save the patch in that directory > and do: > > patch -p1 < re_store_presents.patch > > to apply it. if you don't have all scripts you'll be prompted to enter > location of those missing - press enter and then answer y + [enter] to > skip. > > > cheers, > james > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
