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Article #7842Re: Writing to screen, no cursor movement
From: Ed Schwartz
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 16:47
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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