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[Nobody's Hero]

Can someone tell me the command to have underlined text on my vt100 display?

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Robert,

Try something like:

echo '\033[4mhello\033[0m'

Rgds, Robin.

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

[root]pbctst: SUL=`tput smul`
[root]pbctst: EOL=`tput rmul`
[root]pbctst: echo "This is ${SUL}quite${EOL} funny"
This is quite funny
[root]pbctst:


live free or die
harry

[Nobody's Hero]

Actually, I know that it is a command. I can't remember what it is. I found it one day when I was looking at terminfo. I know it is a four letter command like (iecb or ipcs or something) and accepts parms and one parm is to underline text on your screen.

[Nobody's Hero]

Thanks Harry, boy I had a brain cramp. I just could not remember 'tput'

Thanks,
B.

[harry d brown jr]

Robert,

to find those characters and others like "bold" (smso and rmso), use:

untic vt100

SBD=`tput smso`
EBD=`tput rmso'
echo "This is ${SBD}quite${EBD} funny"

The names are cryptic! Having one time built a terminfo entry for wyse50's emulating ViewPoint50's isn't fun.

live free or die
harry