From: Jude Dashiell Subject: using ansi.sys syntax question Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Organization: Verio MidAtlantic User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980105 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.6 (sun4u)) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2RM24.45715$oa2.363278@iad-read.news.verio.net> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 11:10:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.143.0.8 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT verio DOT net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 944478654 168.143.0.8 (Mon, 06 Dec 1999 11:10:54 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 11:10:54 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In a program I've written I need to position the cursor to row 2 column 30 and print a title. I decided to use printf() and stdio.h since it works better with my screen reader than the conio.h library's cprintf() function. I have the lines: row=2; col=30; printf('\33''\133'row,col'\150'"natal change locator"); in as one of the lines in this program. The only thing that's holding this program up is my desire to have neat looking screen formatting. Calculations and the rest works perfectly. I'll probably have to substitute: *row and *col to get the contents of row and col to write out, and probably the octal for the comma character. Is that likely to be all of the syntax that's messed up in this line? I'm curious if djgpp offers any other way to do this at some higher level of abstraction too. Other packages like ansisys-c.zip on the simtel archives have existed since 1995 so this has me wondering about djgpp and maybe something I've missed reading those info files. -- -------------------- jude