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From: soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard)
Subject: pascal, tput, calling programs from within a program.
Message-ID: <1993Feb15.164609.8596@cc.umontreal.ca>
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Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 16:46:09 GMT
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Hello unixers!
I have a simple question to ask... and maybe the answer will not be
that simple! Anyhow... here we go...
How can I call another program from within a program in pascal?
Ex: program foo;
begin
---> call tput('cup', 12, 12);
end.
My other problem:
I've been trying to use the curses library from the pascal program
but I keep getting core dumps as I run the program. Let us say I
try to clear the screen using the curses clear and the "go to" a
position on the screen using the 'move(x, y)' from curses.
I do a refresh and everything goes well... except when I want to
read from the standard input using read or readln procedure. the
program doesn't put on the screen my string and when I want to
read... it hangs and then I get a core dump!
Before calling any curses function, I do call the initscr function
and before quitting I do call the endwin function.
Please HELP!!!
If it's not possible to use successfuly curses and pascal
together... how can I retrieve the terminal's name from within the
pascal program from the environment list?
Thanks in advance,
Richard Soubyran
Departement de biologie,
Universite de Montreal
soubyran@alize.ere.umontreal.ca