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Re: Cursor control

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From: Stephen M. Dunn
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 04:06
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In article <4837@helios.TAMU.EDU> richard@csseq.tamu.edu (richard.henderson~) writes:
$In article <2025@bruce.OZ> jono@bruce.OZ (Jonathan Oliver) writes:
$>Is there a standard way of using unix like cursor control
$>in a C program that is not machine dependant. 
$Yes.  It is called the BIOS 10h interface.

   Note that this is only portable to IBM compatibles.  Not all MS-DOS
systems have these services, and they're unavailable on other systems
to which you might eventually wish to port your programs.
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Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Cursor control
Message-ID: <2622AD56.28614@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 11 Apr 90 04:06:45 GMT
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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