Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?
The main question that I sent to list is the subject above of this e-mail:
How to hide/show cursor on a Linux console/xterm without using the famous
"ncurses" libraries.
I also asked, where do I look for any document/tutorial/faq about the
low-level programming of Linux console/xterm, because I found a lot of
documents concerning the Linux configuration on internet, but a little
number
concerning the Unix/Linux programming.
Anyway the point is I didn't like that Graig called "weenie" the Dos
programmers,
because they weren't and I wasn't too.
Have a good day.
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To: Lorenzo Zampese/Electrolux Professional S.P.A./Italy/Electrolux
Group
cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
Date: 03/04/2000 13:56:28 GMT
03/04/2000 15:56:57
Subject: Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?
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lorenzo.zampese@notes.electrolux.it writes:
> The point is: an exact question needs an exact answer.
Except for Craig's understandable but unfortunate need to take shots
at old DOS programmers, he gave you the right answer---and to the
extent that "exactness" matters, it is also exact.
You asked, more or less, "How do I do terminal handling in Unix just
like I did in DOS".
Craig answered, more or less, "Unix is not DOS, and the way things are
done in Unix are not the same as how they are done in DOS."
If you don't like that answer, that's fine, but you shouldn't cast
aspersions on Craig for giving the correct answer to a question that
probably shouldn't have been asked here in the first place---this is
not a Unix Programming class.
Mike.
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