Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 13:47:57 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: HELP! Graphix in TEXT MODE
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Alaric B. Williams wrote:

> Look up "conio.h" in the libc info dox... type:
> 
> info libc f
> 
> and choose "Console I/O" or "conio" or whatever it's called (it should
> be obvious!).
> 
> conio.h is the interface to the DJGPP standard text-'graphics'
> library. You can do colours, go all over the screen, scroll rectangles
> about, etc...

Another option is to use the PDCurses package. I'm not sure if it has full
SVr4 Curses support, but in any case you get nice text widgets, box
drawing, multiple windows, and pads. Not to mention the (IMO) Holy Grail
of Unix compatibility!


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