MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

tput(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities tput(1)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

tput uses the following environment variables:

TERM

contains the current terminal type.

TERMINFO

can be used to override the default database.

DIAGNOSTICS

tput may return the following status values:

0 tput successfully wrote an appropriate character sequence to change the terminal’s

characteristics or a boolean terminfo variable is TRUE.

1 A boolean terminfo variable is FALSE.

2 action was not one of the recognized keywords or you speciﬁed invalid command line

option.

3 tput has no information about the terminal type given by –T or

TERM

4 Requested action cannot be performed on your type of terminal.

>4 An error occurred.

Messages

Message: Missing terminal type after -T.

Cause: You speciﬁed the –T option without specifying the terminal type as an argu-

ment.

Action: Provide the missing terminal type.

Message: No terminfo database.

Cause: tput was unable to ﬁnd the terminfo database.

Action: Set the environment variable

TERMINFO

to point at a valid terminfo database.

Message: Unknown option "–option"

Cause: You speciﬁed an option that is not valid for tput.

Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid tput options.

Message: Unknown terminal "term".

Cause: You speciﬁed a terminal type with the –T option, but that terminal type was not

found in the terminfo database.

Action: Check that the terminal type exists, and that you spelled it correctly.

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