Initscripts and tput

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:56 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:

> After a long session hacking initscripts today, I realized that we are
> relying on tput to get ansi control characters.  This is not bad except
> that tput is in /usr/bin/ and /usr may not be available to use before
> mounting filesystems.  There is a couple solutions as i see it:
> 
> 1. move tput from /usr/bin to /bin in the terminfo-bin package
> 2. fall back to hardcoded ansi control characters (may not work on some
> strange terminals)
> 3. other solution...
> 
Why are we using ansi control characters?

Scott
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