From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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<silkwodj AT my-deja DOT com> wrote:
> Funny thing about this is after learning on my Win/Dos system
> using DJGPP, I went to LINUX and couldn't find conio.h

Curses. (pun intended)

> It seems that the multi-user UNIX world snubs thier noses at the Dos
> approach to console interrupts, and I understand I should leave conio.h
> for curses.h over there.  But hey, if you're in msdos why not conio.h?

Because you won't be in msdos forever. If you're trying to
write portable programs, use ncurses. A version comes with
Linux and most other *n?x, and it has been ported to DJGPP.
IIRC you can get the DJGPP version at the Zip Picker.

> I admit there are porting problems.  This may be an area for reduction
> in DPMI support in future NT releases as well I suppose?

If they took out conio support in future releases of Windows
2000, it would break just about every DOS program, and
many of us would leave MS and head to www.lineo.com
or www.freedos.org


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