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Re: FWD: Debian Swirl ascii-art (coloured using termcap)



On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:48:55PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote:
> Hi
> 
> New version using tput is at:
> http://people.debian.org/~arthur/debian-issue.sh
> 
> Marcus Brinkmann schrieb:
> > The use of setterm is Linux specific and unportable.  POSIX defines tput for
> > this purpose, please use that instead.  Even with that, the exact behaviour
> > is unspecified, but at least it will work on more systems than just Linux.
> 
> With tput this even works in rxvt, setterm didn't do that. Good
> that I used variables for the strings ;).

FWIW, on a white background, only the swirl and the red i point are
visible--white text on white doesn't have too much contrast ;-)

    Gregor



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