basic programming questions

H. S. security at revolutionsp.com
Thu Mar 10 10:27:54 PST 2005


Thanks! I'll give it a look :-)

> That's not a flame.  The library is called curses, there is a version
> called ncurses.
>
> http://www.cs.mun.ca/~rod/ncurses/ncurses.html
>
> -Steven
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Maloney [mailto:adam at whee.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:59 AM
> To: H. S.
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: basic programming questions
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, H. S. wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Sorry if this is a little offtopic, but I need some basic help with C.
>>
>> I'm not a programmer, but I need to get something done in C for a
> project.
>> I need to do a console application, and as I've got some free time,
> I'd
>> like to add bold sentences and characters with other colors (ie blue,
> red,
>> etc), to make it prettier.
>>
>> As my C skills go as far as declaring variables, making loops, and
> knowing
>> my way around pointers, I really do not know where to start looking
> for
>> the header file including these functions! I also need a function to
> clear
>> the screen (in order to re-draw it).
>>
>> Could anyone point me to the right header files, and perhaps suggest
> some
>> programs that use these functions so I can have something to start
> with?
>
> curses!
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