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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:09:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses?
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
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>> Will I be in over my head trying to tweak the output? Hmmm... maybe if I
tell top TERM=dumb?
>
> You may need to tell it TERM=dumb, though it might also refuse to run.

It does run w/ TERM=dumb, so hopefully I won't have to resort to defining
my own terminal definition. (Now, *that* takes me back.) Now to see how
simple the output is...

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<p dir="ltr">&gt;&gt; Will I be in over my head trying to tweak the output? Hmmm... maybe if I tell top TERM=dumb?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; You may need to tell it TERM=dumb, though it might also refuse to run.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It does run w/ TERM=dumb, so hopefully I won&#39;t have to resort to defining my own terminal definition. (Now, *that* takes me back.) Now to see how simple the output is...</p>
<p dir="ltr">Skip</p>

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