[H-GEN] Windows Compiler

[Andrae Muys]

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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, fbrand wrote:

> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
> [ Unix-related topics.  Please observe the list's charter.          ]
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
Of course as Martin said, unless you're actually porting a conio.h DOS
program to Unix you shouldn't be using conio anyway.  Better to use
ncurses and give yourself free network transparency via telnet (or
preferably ssh).

Andrae

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