> (tput bold) is _NOT_ a bash function!  IIRC it is an add-on provided by
> some ncurses demo by Petr Stehlik.
Erm, `tput` is a standard part of the termcap/lib & curses interface.  If
you have any sort of curses installed, you should have a tput program.
J
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