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Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comremovebullcr_p> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2000 11:40:06 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>>
>>On Wed, 17 May 2000, Tom wrote:
>>
>>> how would i write my own funtion to do the same thing so that it would be
>>> portable?
>>
>>Portable to what platforms/compilers/libraries?

> Portable to POSIX:  Use *curses.
> Portable to most non-Mac graphical platforms:  Use Allegro.

"most" ?  I looked up Allegro a few months ago when you referred to it,
saw that it was a program that had been ported to a half-dozen variants
of Unix 4-5 years ago.

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