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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:10:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: one-line curses-type lib? (somewhat OT)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210142107590.15791-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021015002959.GB57721@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:29:59 -0700
> From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: one-line curses-type lib? (somewhat OT)
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:42:03PM -0400, John Bleichert wrote:
> > Hello All
> > 
> > I've been fiddling with ncurses for a while and it doesn't seem to provide 
> > what I need right now. I need a method for writing positionally to one 
> > line, and one line only, sort of like a curses for one terminal line, not 
> > the whole screen, a la the progress line in cdparanaoia ans rpm. Can 
> > anybody tell me which lib facilitates this? Is there one? 
> 
> Well, curses will let you do this too.
> 
> Kris

I have a full-term curses interface, but I couldn't get curses to provide 
just a one-line terminal interface, leaving the rest uneffected.

Proper use of '\r' and fflush did the trick.

Thanks - JB

#  John Bleichert 
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