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Old 09-06-2005
Cursor Positioning

Can anyone tell me how to ouput the current cursor coordinate? I have tried using tput sc and tput rc. However I want to know what the coordinate is.

Thanks.
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Old 09-06-2005
I'm not so sure that you can, but take a look at this.

Cheers
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