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Hi,

New user here, I have googled this but found nothing that helps me.

I have a file of data and want to display it to a user from within a "frame/window/screen" that allows the user to pageup/pagedown through the data.

I can do this mostly, but I cannot detect the pressing of the pageup/pagedown keys.

I can get it to go with say "u[Enter]" for up using read input, but I want it to be one keypress of the pageup key.

Can anyone point me at some info on how to do this ?

Using HP-UX, with KSH-88.

Cheers
Greg

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stty -a shows that -icanon is set, so I should be able to catch the key press ????

I don't quit understand what you are writing this in.
In C use should use the curses library to interpret function keys,
In ksh, why not just use the "less" command.

Check this post: https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...#post302309005

There is no "less" in this ksh.

Why not use "pg", "page" or "more" ? All allow page up/down though it is not through the named keys on the keyboard.

Of these programs "pg -r" stops shell breakout and you can get "pg" to output instructions to the user.

@Franklin52 - This example was for bash and I am using ksh, and a newbie to boot, so i couldn't get it to fly.

@jgt - I may have to explore the C option, I had wanted to just use ksh if possible.

@methyl - I had wanted to display a type of header (2-3 lines) at the top of the screen and then have a page at a time displayed underneath it. So the pg option will not preserve that. But it may be the quickest workaround to do. I'll try that for now and see if I can improve on it later.

Thanks all for the responses ...
GC

You might try this, xHarbour.org , assuming that it will compile and run on HP-UX.
Here is the source code for your request.

Code:

create temp                        
append blank                       
replace field_name with "text"     
replace field_type with "C"        
replace field_len with 75          
replace field_dec with 0           
close temp                         
create text from temp              
append from t.prg sdf              
go top                             
heading1="For our first report"    
heading2="Name Addresss Invoice No"
@1,40-len(heading1)/2 say heading1 
@2,40-len(heading2)/2 say Heading2 
browse( 3,5,14,70)                 
quit

Thanks for the help jgt, but management policy precludes adding other 3rd party stuff to the box. An interesting read none the less.