Screen Control in WinXP and Linux

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:06:38 -0300, peter <peter.mosley at talk21.com>  
escribió:

> I've been wrestling on and off with this problem for over a year now,
> without success.  Basically, I am looking for a simple set of screen
> and keyboard manipulation commands that will run identically under
> Linux and Windows.  Nothing fancy - just clear the screen, print a
> string at an arbitrary xy position and detect a keystroke.  I've
> googled around this newsgroup and elsewhere, and come across various
> suggestions (and even posted my own partial solutions), but still
> haven't come up with an elegant solution.

What about curses (Linux) and Console (XP)? You could wrap just the bits  
needed for your application in a more-or-less generic way.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina