Rob Landley Spoke These Fine Words of Wisdom to David Strickland,
About Screen Writes.

 >> I do know that direct screen writes are a No-No, so how does
 >> one write to the infamous 80,25 (with out scrolling the
 >> screen)?  Are there built-in functions to do this?  I looked
 >> through the header files and pulled a blank.

 RL> Under GNU C++ there's the curses package...  The OS/2 way to do
 RL> this is with the "VIO" functions, I have sample code somewhere if
 RL> you want to call the OS/2 API's directly...

I discovered the curses library, but decided not to use it, for what I'm
going to be doing calling Vio directly is good enough.


David

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