From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Buffering text...
Date: 27 Nov 2000 14:51:37 GMT
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Graham Reeds <grahamr AT dtn DOT ntl DOT com> wrote:
> From: "Hans-Bernhard Broeker" <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>

>> Even then, clrscr() is a waste of time by a factor of 4 or so. At 50%
>> of content having to be replaced, clrscr() plus re-write of the whole
>> stuff causes 4 times the amount of characters to be written to screen
>> as would be truly necessary.

> Is there a way of repositioning the write position to the individual lines
> on the screen without disturbing the rest of the text? 

Of course there is. Look up gotoxy() in the libc docs, or
ScreenSetCursor().  You'll want to have a glance over the whole
'Console I/O' set of function to learn what's there, I think

	info libc func conio



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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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