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From: nickbk@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Bryan-Kinns)
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Subject: Re: Where can I find the control codes for VT100 terminal ?
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ian barland (boy wander) (ian@cse.ucsc.edu) wrote:
: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant)) writes:
: | Since the program need to
: | place the char at random position on screen and then erase the char; I need
: | to printf() some control codes.  I don't have information on the control
: | chars for terminal (I guess the vt100 is the most common one).
: |
: This may be overkill for what you want, but the "curses" library
: provides for term-type-independent code, instead of restricting yourself
: to (say) vt100.  "man 3v curses".  (Never used it myself, don't know how
: much is involved in figuring out what's needed.)

: ian

i used curses a bit last year and it seems ok - its a bit fiddly to start up 
but after that its rather simple to use (you can even make yourself some menus 
and use different terms (as you said))

nick.