From:	"Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: pokeb peekb
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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:22:22 GMT
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<Sterten AT aol DOT com> wrote in message news:9 DOT 187bbe3f DOT 28881b90 AT aol DOT com...
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>  >On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 Sterten AT aol DOT com wrote:
>  >
>  >> 1) what's the shortest complete program that pokes a face (ascii 1)
>  >>    into the exact middle of the screen and exits to DOS ?
>  >
>  >_farpokeb (_dos_ds, ScreenPrimary + 12*160 + 80, 1);
>  >
>  >(This is not a complete program, but the rest is easy to add.)
>
> not for me. Although I found and printed some helpful tutorials
> from avly meanwhile.
> Here are my attempts so far:

<snip>

Why do you have to put a smiley in the middle of the screen?  Some wierd
obsession?

Anyways in DJGPP you can use

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main(void)
{
    gotoxy(40,12);
    printf("\x01\n");
    return 0;
}

which isn't portable but works in DJGPP at least.

Tom

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