Talk:Tput

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[edit] Earliest tput

References to tput before 1986 are vague - it could have been written as late as 1985, though 1986 seems late, given the SVR3 and O'Reilly comments. pcurses does not mention it, and that dates from the end of 1986.

There was a similar idea kurses implemented in 1985-1987, submitted to volume 8 of mod.sources (March 20, 1987), written by Jonathan Bowen and Marc Ries. It contains a comment that "Kurses (aka, curse) was published to the net several years ago." Here is a description and here is a file for "curse" by Jonathan Bowen with a date for February 20, 1985. Except that it prefixes all of the capability names with "-", it is similar to tput Tedickey (talk) 20:11, 25 April 2008 (UTC)