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From: kimcm@diku.UUCP (Kim Christian Madsen)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: cursor sensing in termcap (Re: dam (draughts, continental checkers...
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 17:11:19 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 17:11:19 1985
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Keywords: termcap, standard, cursor sensing

In article <774@mcvax.UUCP> aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) writes:
>(Unfortunately, not all the nice
>features can be expressed in this way: there is no standard capability to
>ask for the position of the cursor.)

If you use the standard package curses(3x), then you can ask which position
on the screen the cusor is at with the getyx(stdscr,y,x) command.

						Regards
						Kim Chr. Madsen
					a.k.a.	kimcm@diku.uucp