Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 10:51:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: janderso <janderso AT aone DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: termcap as it applies to djgpp
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On 5 Jan 1998, janderso wrote:

> I need to perform some screen functions for which I would access termcap
> and get escape sequences under unix flavors ... I either need the 
> escape sequences for my new environment or an alternate approach-
> 	I need desperately - cursor motion, reverse video
>             would really like     - insert line, delete line
>             and others would be nice

If you need Unix portability, use Curses (there's a DJGPP port in 
v2tk/pdc22b.zip file).

If you don't care about portability, use the conio functions (look them 
up in the <conio.h> header, then read their description in the library 
reference.  You have gotoxy(), insline(), getch() etc.