[H-GEN] Windows Compiler

[Andrae Muys]

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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Frank Brand wrote:

> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
> [ Unix-related topics.  Please observe the list's charter.          ]
> Simon Robertson wrote:
> 
> Another little problem (especially for non gui programmes) the DOS version of
> C uses an include file that is very useful conio.h but (unless things have
> changed lately) there is no simple and fully functional equivalent of this in
> Unix/Linux so be careful if you want to move source code from DOS to *nix.
> 
The equivelent under Unix is ncurses, which happens to be far more
powerful, and has the advantage of being terminal independent.

I have done a little with ncurses, and as a conio replacement it's no more
difficult to use, and of course it is much more powerful.

Andrae

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