RL> Can't be done.  OS/2 doesn't work that way.  What you 
 RL> want are the low level text API's (VioWrite or 

Sure it can, though admittedly it takes some mucking with the Vio* API to
lock the screen (VioScrLock), get a pointer to the physical screen
(VioGetPhysBuf), unlock the screen (VioScrUnlock), etc..  It can get even
fancier with VioSavReDrawWait thrown in to coordinate session switches.  I
have not done the code myself, but the APIs are there to allow it.

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