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NAME

Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface

SYNOPSIS

require Term::Cap;
$terminal = Tgetent Term::Cap { TERM => undef, OSPEED => $ospeed };
$terminal->Trequire(qw/ce ku kd/);
$terminal->Tgoto('cm', $col, $row, $FH);
$terminal->Tputs('dl', $count, $FH);
$terminal->Tpad($string, $count, $FH);

DESCRIPTION

These are low-level functions to extract and use capabilities from a terminal capability (termcap) database.

More information on the terminal capabilities will be found in the termcap manpage on most Unix-like systems.

METHODS

EXAMPLES

use Term::Cap;

# Get terminal output speed
require POSIX;
my $termios = new POSIX::Termios;
$termios->getattr;
my $ospeed = $termios->getospeed;

# Old-style ioctl code to get ospeed:
#     require 'ioctl.pl';
#     ioctl(TTY,$TIOCGETP,$sgtty);
#     ($ispeed,$ospeed) = unpack('cc',$sgtty);

# allocate and initialize a terminal structure
$terminal = Tgetent Term::Cap { TERM => undef, OSPEED => $ospeed };

# require certain capabilities to be available
$terminal->Trequire(qw/ce ku kd/);

# Output Routines, if $FH is undefined these just return the string

# Tgoto does the % expansion stuff with the given args
$terminal->Tgoto('cm', $col, $row, $FH);

# Tputs doesn't do any % expansion.
$terminal->Tputs('dl', $count = 1, $FH);

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Please see the README file in distribution.

AUTHOR

This module is part of the core Perl distribution and is also maintained for CPAN by Jonathan Stowe <jns@gellyfish.com>.

SEE ALSO

termcap(5)

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