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- From: Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: NEWBIE input question
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 19:15:33 -0800
- Organization: Alcyone Systems
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- James Edward Sands III wrote:
-
- > I will be using such a function for user input things like
- > state abbreviation (2 char), a zip (five ints), and the sort.
- > I have played around using the gotoxy for placement of the cursor
- > but have had no success, and unfourtunately the computer I am at
- > now is not the one a program on. Can someone give me any suggestions
- > or just even a word or two that might point me in the right directions.
-
- This is not a C++ question, as C++ makes no explicit provisions for this kind
- of screen manipulation. Look into using a screen graphics library such as
- curses.
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