Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 15:57:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Moo-Juice <Ben AT flag DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A few questions
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Moo-Juice wrote:

> The reason I can't use something like 'ScreenUpdate()' is because it is
> a text-based windowing class, and i can't just plonk information on the
> screen as a window might be obscuring it, so this has to be checked
> first.

Then check out the PDCurses library available with DJGPP 
(v2tk/pdc22.zip), at least as a prototype.  It already supports text-mode 
windows and is also portable to Unix platforms.