Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bpa!sjuphil!ryan
From: ryan@sjuphil.uucp (Patrick M. Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: help with curses
Keywords: curses
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.020229.18954@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 17 Jan 90 02:02:29 GMT
References: <1928@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Reply-To: ryan@sjuphil.UUCP (Patrick M. Ryan)
Organization: SJU Grad CSC
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In article <1928@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jsv9504@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.S. Veiss) writes:
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>I'm trying to print graphics characters in a program using the curses library.
>I've gotten things down to be the only way the print the escape codes to change
>the character set is to print it to stdout instead of stdscr. 

     curses does some sort of filtering when it prints characters to the
screen.  to print graphics characters to the screen, you need to use the
raw I/O functions.  there is a function 'addrawch' which i use to print
characters like arrows.

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