Message-ID: <3B53299B.3455FD72@alpha.delta.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:51:23 -0400 From: "David Witbrodt" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Newbie Display questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, TD wrote: > > > I am new to C++ programming but have done some QBasic stuff. > > Is there a C++ command, like Basic's "Locate" command, to position > > the cursor on the screen. I want to create a DOS program and from > > what I have read so far, C++ doesn't seem to have an easy way to build > > screens to interact with the user. > > Look up gotoxy in the library reference ("info libc alpha gotoxy"). Eli, Do CONIO functions mix with IOSTREAM-style output? I was under the impression that they would not, for reasons similar to the incompatibility between printf() and cprintf(). I confess to never having tried it, though. DW