[TAG] C program problem

Jason Creighton androflux at softhome.net
Wed Jul 7 21:42:38 MSD 2004


On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:40:40 +0000, 
"Sanjib Roy" <sanjib_w at hotmail.com> wrote:

> how can i Clear Screen and Move Cursor to print a message in the screen from 
> a C program that uses standard C function like printf() putch() without 
> using ncurses.

You can't do that without ncurses. That is, you can't do it in a
standard way that will work everywhere. You could spit out some escape
codes, but that only works with on type of terminal. This sort of
problem is exactly why the ncurses library exists, and to not use it
would be quite silly.

Jason Creighton




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