Re: Is there a library function for placing cursor position in the cosole?

From: Lawrence Kirby (lknews_at_netactive.co.uk)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:44:25 +0000

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:20:04 +0000, Michael Wojcik wrote:

>
> In article <pan.2004.12.17.17.47.18.360000@netactive.co.uk>, Lawrence Kirby <lknews@netactive.co.uk> writes:
>> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:04:00 +0000, Michael Wojcik wrote:
>>
>> > It doesn't matter whether fprintf(stderr, ...) works for an MS Windows
>> > GUI program. It's a freestanding environment.
>>
>> That depends on whether MS C compilers claim to provide a hosted
>> environment for console apps.
>
> Did you mean whether they claim to provide a hosted environment for
> GUI apps?

Not really, since as you mention below they don't use a valid program
startup mechanism for a hosted implementation.

> Otherwise, I don't see how that would be relevant to
> whether they provide a freestanding implementation for GUI apps.

Console apps can use GUI facilities, so that's really the only
area combination that could be relevant.

> If that is what you meant, then yes, I agree that if MS claims that
> it provides a conforming hosted implementation for GUI apps, that
> claim appears to be invalid. For one thing, GUI apps use a different
> form for the function called at program startup.
>
> For the record, I couldn't find any such claim in the MS documentation
> I have at hand.

Then of course they can do what they like, but we know that anyway. :-)

Lawrence

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