[H-GEN] linux-conio

Frank Brand fbrand at uq.net.au
Tue Aug 25 23:15:35 EDT 1998


I found this on Dejanews for anyone interested. The problem described is
much the same as I want to do.

-----------------from Dejanews----------------------------

> I wrote a program in C under Dos with Borland C 3.1 that saves part of
> the screen and then restores it through gettext() and puttext().
> 
> Now I have to do the same thing under Unix (interactive).
> 
> I've tried with using curses library, but i haven't found anything to
> do this. I tried with scr_dump() and scr_restore() too, but they
> always clear the screen.
> 
> Really, the  program must  display a box with text on the screen over
> the previous  program (that call mine)  screen and before terminate it
> must restore the text that was under the box.
> 
> any suggestion?

For Linux there is a library called linux-conio which is based on
ncurses
and  emulates the conio library on DOS systems. It can be found on
sunsite.

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Maybe there are other ways to do this under GCC (delorie - djgpp uses
conio.h I think) but I am just coming to grips with GCC and am not
familiar enough with the various embeded functions.
-- 
Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at uq.net.au
Homepage: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand




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