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- From: jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com (Jeremy Nixon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Help with console I/O
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 07:41:59 GMT
- Organization: Asbury Park Press
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- I'm trying to write a simple cli-based program with a good old-fashioned
- (read: simple) text-based interface, the kind where I can just move the
- cursor around to update stuff. I want it to run right in the console
- (shell) window. I have two problems:
-
- 1) What are the control characters/escape sequences/whatever to move the
- cursor around? No matter what I do I can't get the darned thing to move.
-
- 2) When I try to type arrow keys to my program, I instead get shell line
- editing and command history. I can see that the shell (csh or AmigaShell,
- no difference) is getting the input stream before I am. How do I rectify
- this situation? I don't want to muck around with task priorities--that's
- what Executive is for--but I do want to run my program right in the shell
- window.
-
- And an unrelated question:
-
- Is there ANY way to get the OS 3.1 autodoc files? I'd be happy to buy them
- from AT, if they were willing to support their developers.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Jeremy Nixon
- jeremyn@injersey.com
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