On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Bernie wrote:
> Garry wrote:
> >Anything that directly addresses the cursor position
> >on the screen depends on the minimal ability of the
> >hardware to do that.
> (snip)
> >Under DOS there are commercial
> >packages (or were, anyway), and there may be a
> >version of "curses" (PC-Curses, perhaps?) for DOS.
>
> I don't think "ncurses" (the name I know it under) must be used. Borland
> has gotoxy() functions in conio.h and this is a basic service you always
> have in DOS so you can always make the functions yourself. For that some
> assembly (perhaps inline) is needed.
> //Bernie
There's a public domain curses library available for DOS
called PDCurses, which seems to be a popular choice among
DJGPP users. The S-Lang library can be compiled under DOS
too.
R.
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