Hi, >From what I got, there are two type of terminal control. One that uses the ansi codes as Mr. Laha rightly said. ( e.g. backspace, carriage return, line feed, etc). but they treat the terminal as a serial device. I cant do things like erase some text once it has been sent. ( one round about way is a carriage return and then printing all spaces). but it seems there are slightly more advanced requests provided by IOCTL function which allow things like setting the terminal size, etc.
But I couldnt find any exhaustive documentation for these requests. Any pointers in this direction will be very helpful. My interest is totally Academic and I dont bother about portability. It will be fine if the thing runs on normal ANSI terminals or VT100. Thank you Sourangshu On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Russell McOrmond wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Manas Laha wrote: > > > What ncurses uses is a aet of standard ANSI codes for terminal control. > > Unfortunately, I don't have a ready answer about where to find them. > > > > These codes may be used by any program. > > Yes and no. > > > ncurses and similar programs make use of the termcap and other > information to determine which set of terminal control settings to use. > If you are doing anything advanced, you want to go through something like > ncurses to ensure that your terminal based application will work > regardless of what terminal someone is using. > > If you create something 'vt100 only' or linux-console only, then the > program will only work in those specialized environments. > > --- > Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> > Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, > VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen > and not a third party. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/ > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sourangshu Bhattacharya M.Tech. Computer Science, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
