On (24 Apr 97) Cameron Clark wrote to Jerry Coffin...
 CC>     Are there any portable calls for direct screen io? (not conio.h)
 CC>     Lets say UNIX and DOS portable?
Yes and no.  The UNIX curses library has been ported to DOS, at least in
part, so with the right library handy you can use them portably.  In
fact, quite a few functions Borland includes in conio.h are quite
similar to curses function.  e.g. both include clrscr() and gotoxy().
However, I don't think the two are similar enough to allow code to be
ported without a fair amount of work.
    Later,
    Jerry.
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