Re: Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-04-03 Thread lorenzo . zampese
pe of terminal, and then ...bla bla bla... or ->Read documentation on "www.xyz.org" The point is: an exact question needs an exact answer. Comments and suggestions are another thing, though they are welcome, OK ? Anyway I think you don't know the answer, really.

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Thank you - The ones you called "weenie dos programmer" were not so "weenie", because the old Ms-dos worked on PCs with a Ibm 80x25 terminal in the 90-95% of cases. Then that assumption was a standard "de facto"... Anyway, you didn't answer to my question !

How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread lorenzo . zampese
How can I hide/show the cursor on a generic text terminal (xterms included), without using the famous 'ncurses' libraries ? And about colors and text scrolling ? I found an interesting document on internet (unix programmer FAQ v1.31) concerning how to program terminals, tasks, mailing, etc., but i

Entering in the Official Debian's distribution

2000-03-29 Thread lorenzo . zampese
How can a programmer have the right of putting his own program on the Official Debian's Distribution ? I have heard something about the PGP key, but I haven't a clear idea. Please, is there anybody who can explain it to me ? Thank you.

Terminal I/O without NCURSES

2000-03-23 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Where Can I look for any document/tutorial about the Linux's keyboard/video/xterm low-level programming ? This is because I would like to make a my own library for managing the Linux's terminals, without using the famous ncurses libraries. I tried to watch ncurses's sources, but they are too compl