From: jiminy AT olag DOT com (Primro)
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Subject: Re: How to graphically locate text in standard screen terminal mode
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On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:01:23 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>
>On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>
>> This is incorrect. gotoxy() has next to no influence at all on printf(). 
>
>Are you sure?  I think it does, since printf calls DOS which calls BIOS 
>which prints at the current cursor position.
>
>It *is* true that mixing printf and gotoxy is a bad idea, of course.

Well, thanks for the leads in this thread. I'm off to experiment with
gotoxy right now.