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my objective is to draw box and use inverse video and also accept input variables . Can this be done using tput
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my objective is to draw box and use inverse video and also accept input variables . Can this be done using tput

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tput uses the capabilities specified in termcap, respectively terminfo. so, if your terminal is capable to draw boxes the answer is yes. If it cannot, but can use reverse video, you can write a script which draws a bocks using reverse video (blank) characters.<br />
&gt;&nbsp;.. accept input variables<br />
Hmm, what dou you mean by that?<br />
Think you mean the &quot;read input from terminal&quot; capavility of a shell, then see man sh, or man csh, or whatever (read var; set var = $&lt; )
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tput uses the capabilities specified in termcap, respectively terminfo. so, if your terminal is capable to draw boxes the answer is yes. If it cannot, but can use reverse video, you can write a script which draws a bocks using reverse video (blank) characters.
> .. accept input variables
Hmm, what dou you mean by that?
Think you mean the "read input from terminal" capavility of a shell, then see man sh, or man csh, or whatever (read var; set var = $< )

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Can you give me an example of how I can use shell programming using cursors to display input and accept input and also to create interactive cursors
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Can you give me an example of how I can use shell programming using cursors to display input and accept input and also to create interactive cursors

Shell programming involving cursors

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.