Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!iex!ntvax!gene
From: gene@ntvax.UUCP (Gene DeLisa CEMI)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: turboc - clrscr() & gotoxy() functions
Message-ID: <236@ntvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 16:22:43 GMT
References: <3ff17f35.7183@apollo.COM>
Reply-To: gene@ntvax.UUCP (Gene DeLisa CEMI)
Organization: University of North Texas
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In article <3ff17f35.7183@apollo.COM> landry@apollo.COM (Chris Landry) writes:
>I'm a fairly new MSDos TurboC user. (vers 1.0)
>Does TurboC allow screen functions like...
>  clrscr();   gotoxy(x,y);  clreol();   etc?
You need version 1.5 or greater. They included a graphics library with
that release. version 2.0 is now current.
In the meatime you can use the video bios routines with int86().
They're pretty slow. It would be better to just write to video memory.

Gene De Lisa
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia