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Re: Writing to screen, no cursor movement

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From: Ed Schwartz
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 16:47
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In article <44rvl0$3pq@news1.wolfe.net>,  from 3 Oct 1995 18:33:04 GMT William 
White at wcw@wolfenet.com says...
>
>        I'm programming in text mode, and would like to know how to write 
characters 
>to the screen without moving the cursor.  Just backing up the cursor one 
>column after a character is written is not good enough.
>        Here is what I need this for:
>        
>        I'm trying to write a program that does all screen I/O without the 
screen 
>borders scrolling.  I need to be able to write in column 80 on line 25 
>without the cursor going to the next line, thus making line 1 disappear off 
>the screen.


	Write the caracter directly to the screen buffer, i.e. in your
	case (line 25 column 80) write to B800:0F9E
	I don't know, how to do that in C
	
	
>
>        I would be eternally gratefull for any help anyone could give me.
		    ^^^^^^^^^	
 		     two weeks should do !


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