man pages section 3: Curses Library Functions

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

resetty(3XCURSES)

Name

resetty, savetty - restore/save terminal modes

Synopsis

cc [ flag... ] file... –I /usr/xpg4/include –L /usr/xpg4/lib \
–R /usr/xpg4/lib –lcurses [ library... ]

c89 [ flag... ] file... –lcurses [ library... ]

#include <curses.h>

int resetty(void);
int savetty(void);

Description

The savetty() and resetty() functions save and restore the terminal state, respectively. The savetty() function saves the current state in a buffer; the resetty() function restores the state to that stored in the buffer at the time of the last savetty() call.

Return Values

On success, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.

Errors

None.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability
Committed
MT-Level
Unsafe
Standard

See also

libcurses(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)