"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +0000, John Carline wrote: > [...] > > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C > > program I wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I > > just have to echo this question. > > This sort of question pops up on the C newsgroups and mailing lists > a lot. There *is* no ANSI C way to, for example, clear the screen. The > DOS functions from "conio.h" are completely separate from the C standard. > (Indeed, they are heavily tied to real-mode 8086 and CGA/VGA graphics > and PC hardware, and often can't even be *emulated* well on other > hardware.)
Yup! you've just described my plight. Naturally my code is *heavy* in calls to "conio.h" and "graph.h". Thanks to all who responded with advice. I guess it's time to do some more reading. ;-) John -- Powered by the Penguin
