From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: C++ Q:  Basic I/O w/Screen & Keyboard
Date: 24 Sep 2001 14:05:35 GMT
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Phoenix Magus <phoenixm AT akrobiz DOT com> wrote:

> I want to be able to display a field with a format to the screen and have
> the user fill it in.  I think I saw something in the info from iostream.h

You're looking in the wrong places. That's why you didn't find
anything.  To my limited knowledge, you won't find anything like this
in the C++ standard library documentation, simply because it doesn't
contain any such thing.  

The functionality you need is currently only offered by the
system-dependent part of the C (not C++) library provided by DJGPP.
Don't worry: you can call those from C++, too.  But they won't work on
many other platforms --- if you want that, you'll have to look into
the PDcurses library.

So: look up "conio" in the "functional categories" menu of the libc
documentation:

	info libc func conio
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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