From: "Matthew K. Williams" <matt@...>
Date: 2009-12-04T00:53:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Graphics mode

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On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Martin DeMello wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> wrote:
>>
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0getch();
>>
>> This function exists only in a non-standard library you haven't referred
>> to, and shouldn't be getting used here anyway. =A0If you need to make a =
program
>> wait for a user to hit a key before exiting, you have done something
>> else fundamentally wrong.
>
> Ah, nostalgia :) I think it was from Borland's conio,  a very
> well-designed library indeed. I missed it when I first moved to linux.
>
> martin
>
>

I liked it too.  The only problem I had with it was that it only used VGA=
=20
page 1 (in its TurboC incarnation).  But a disassembler and few changes=20
and it worked for both...

Matt
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