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On 17/05/2010 12:49, Luis Vital wrote:

> I would like to know if it is possible to write directly to a position on
> the screen.
> I am using the text version of cygwin and I compile my program with GCC.

  Sure, you can use the ncurses library to fully control text-mode output:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/

    cheers,
      DaveK


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