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Roeder Martin (Martin.Roeder@mni.fh-giessen.de) wrote:
: I would like to have a function (like gotoXY in Pascal) in C to put the
: cursor on a defined place in the shell.
: Perhaps there are ESC-sequences for it.
: I already found out the ESC-seq. to Clear the window:
: char c[]={27,91,72,27,91,50,74};
: printf("%s",c);

: I use the Sun-Unix System.
: Perhaps there is a library for the sun gcc but I still didn't find it.

These things are not covered by the compiler in Unix systems. You
need to use a library like termcap or curses. Try `man termcap' or
`man curses' as a starter. There are good Gnu implementations of
termcap and curses for Linux and other unix systems.

Rich.


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