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- From: mcclellantj@harrier (Tad McClellan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: beginner needs your help ASAP
- Followup-To: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:22:47 GMT
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4ip7s7$s09@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com>
- References: <4in3s5$a7a@risky.ecs.umass.edu>
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-
- sebag@ecs.umass.edu wrote:
-
- : I am a new C programmer who would like to do some basic graphics.
- : I am using a UNIX machine and I am logging on through telnet.
- : I would like to clear the screen, and write characters at different
- : places on the screen. If I used printf, it would print on the next
- : line. I am trying to choose where on the screen the characters go.
- : Is this easy to do?
-
-
- man curses may help.
-
-
-
-
- Subject: Re: beginner needs your help ASAP
-
- You'll find that you get more responses when you actually mention
- the subject in your Subject. I usually ignore posts without a subject
- I am intersted in.
-
- Subject: character based interface
-
- would have been much better.
-
-
- excerpt from one of the many FAQs posted regularly to news.announce.newusers:
-
- -------------------------------------------
- [The most recent version of this document is posted periodically in
- several newsgroups, including news.newusers.questions, news.groups, and
- news.announce.newusers. It can also obtained by anonymous FTP as
- rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/finding-groups/general. If
- you do not have access to anonymous FTP, you can retrieve it by
- sending email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the command "send
- usenet/news.answers/finding-groups/general" in the message.]
-
- ...
-
- Subject: Choosing a good Subject: header
-
- Many people scan the Subject lines of newsgroups, and choose to only
- read articles with a Subject line that is of interest to them. (This
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- is the '=' command in rn - check the documentation of your newsreader
- to see if this ability is available to you.) If your Subject line does
- not contain useful information about the contents of your post, relatively
- few people will read it.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- For example, you are more likely to get useful replies with a subject of
- "File conversion from PC-Write to WordPerfect" than with a subject of
- "Help!". (In particular, many people ignore any message with a Subject
- of "please read this" or similar pleas.) Subject lines that are longer
- than 40 characters will be truncated on many systems, so make sure that
- your Subject is concise.
-
- ...
-
- If you are following up to another post, make sure that the Subject is
- relevant to your post, too. If you change the topic away from the
- original one, you should probably change the Subject line, too.
- -------------------------------------------
-
- --
- Tad McClellan, Logistics Specialist (IETMs and SGML guy)
- email: mcclellantj@lfwc.lockheed.com
- All I want, is a little more than I'll ever get.
-