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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Seeking wisdom from Unix Greybeards
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Hi Grant,

> wondering if there is a better way to generate the output from
> the code in a way that respects TERMinal capabilites.

    tput setf 4; date; tput sgr0

See terminfo(5).

(BTW, I don't think the question is worthy of TUHS.)

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.