On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:41:10AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
 > Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I wasn't proposing using curses, 
 > it's just that the menu code I have currently uses it. The code could be 
 > used with another method of positioning (and thus lose the reliance on 
 > curses entirely).

There's a BIOS function to move the visible cursor - no idea what it
is any more, but any sufficiently old DOS programming reference will
have it. (To issue text, you just scribble in the ISA video memory.)

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