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I found this was not the easiest to use and also did not provide the full
implementation of conio.h but only a partial implementation. IIRC it had
some difficulty with some color thingies but I can't remember too much
more. Perhaps I was using an earlier version.

Frank Brand


On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:28:57PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:53:51PM +1000, Frank Brand 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.
> > There is a compatibility layer using curses around somewhere, iirc.
> 
> There is. I've got a copy in /usr/local from ages ago, but I don't think I
> have any source anywhere.
> 
> From the header file:
> 
> /***************************************************************************/
> /** File: conio.h     Date: 03/09/1997       Version: 1.02                **/
> /** --------------------------------------------------------------------- **/
> /** CONIO.H an implementation of the conio.h for Linux based on ncurses.  **/
> /** This is copyright (c) 1996,97 by Fractor / Mental EXPlosion.          **/
> /** If you want to copy it you must do this following the terms of the    **/
> /** GNU Library Public License                                            **/
> /** Please read the file "README" before using this library.              **/
> /** --------------------------------------------------------------------- **/
> /** To use this thing you must have got the curses library.               **/
> /** This thing was tested on Linux Kernel 2.0.29, GCC 2.7.2 and           **/
> /** ncurses 1.9.9e which is (c) 1992-1995 by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim and Eric S.**/
> /** Raymond.                                                              **/
> /** Please also read the copyright notices for ncurses before using this !**/
> /***************************************************************************/   
> 
> Not sure if that's any help. I don't thing I have the README file anywhere
> either. There doesn't seem to be a .deb, either.
> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Towns <aj at humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
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> 
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>                                       -- Dave Clark
> 

Frank Brand
fbrand at uq.net.au


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