topic Re: Blink Display in Operating System - HP-UX

Blink Display

KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI — Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:28:01 GMT

Hi all, How do I print blinking messages using Korn @ Born Shell ?

Re: Blink Display

Rainer_1 — Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:52:18 GMT

blink attribut can be turned on with

echo "`tput blink`text..."

but this is not supported on hpterm, dtterm, xterm

Re: Blink Display

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:55:14 GMT

Hi:

Use 'tput'. Take a look at the man pages for 'tput' and 'terminfo'. If your terminal supports it, you can blink messages by doing the following:

# echo "`tput blink`Hello world"

...JRF...

Re: Blink Display

John Palmer — Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:57:22 GMT

Hi,

The command 'tput' will provide you with the necessary control strings for your TERM, see man tput and man terminfo.

For example:-

#!/usr/bin/sh
BLINK=$(tput blink)
NORM=$(tput sgr0)
print "normal ${BLINK} blinking ${NORM} normal"

Regards,
John