On Feb 25, 4:20 am, Antonio Macchi <antonio_mac...@alice.it> wrote: > this command should starts the graphic character set (to create masks) > > $ tput smacs > > but, using aterm or Eterm, it does not work > > but it works using this form (lieing...) > > $ TERM=xterm tput smacs > > does anyone know where is the problem?
tput (and ncurses in general) is unrelated to bash. As I suggested, the place to start is in the terminfo manpage, where it describes line-drawing. (Look in that manpage for "alternate", "acs", etc). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
