changing tab stops

2009-05-31 Thread Robert Huff
I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm, but could be anything). For reasons I won't go into, I would like to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the program ... in a generic/portable way. Is this possible? If so, what are the

Re: changing tab stops

2009-05-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:44:24PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm, but could be anything). For reasons I won't go into, I would like to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the program ... in a

Re: changing tab stops

2009-05-31 Thread Robert Huff
Thomas Dickey writes: I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm, but could be anything). For reasons I won't go into, I would like to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the program ... in a generic/portable way. You could make a