Re: [dev] a few questions about watch in ubase

2016-04-21 Thread Ryan Wilson
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:04:43 -0500 Greg Reagle wrote > Is it appropriate to use ANSI escape codes in the program rather than > using something like tput or terminfo, or to just execute the "clear" > command? Are the escape codes portable? clear(1) from ncurses also clears the

Re: [dev] a few questions about watch in ubase

2016-04-21 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 02:04:43PM -0400, Greg Reagle wrote: > Please excuse me if these questions are rudimentary. I am using Debian > Stable. > > Why is watch linked with the crypt library? > cc -s -o watch watch.o libutil.a -lcrypt > It does not seem to need it. watch does not use anything

[dev] a few questions about watch in ubase

2016-04-21 Thread Greg Reagle
Please excuse me if these questions are rudimentary. I am using Debian Stable. Why is watch linked with the crypt library? cc -s -o watch watch.o libutil.a -lcrypt It does not seem to need it. watch uses "\x1b[2J\x1b[H" to clear the screen, which are the two control codes Erase Screen and C

Re: [dev] Hi, newb here.

2016-04-21 Thread FRIGN
On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:18:25 +0300 ab wrote: Hey ab, > What kind of advice could you guys give to a novice? I'd like to get > myself more familiar with Linux and C (because I have a copy of K&R). > I'm asking you guys because you seem to know what you're doing and > you're the only community I k