Equivalent of CONIO.H in linux

[prashant]

Hi ppl !!
I am wondering that whatever programs i am makin in linux including "conio.h" in my program are giving the errors that conio.h does not exists so i could not fi gure out whats wrong with the file when it works in the windows platform eaasily without any problems
Whats wrong with the file in Linux platform. Does some one has anyidea of whats going wrong with it and what can be the possible solution of the problem. Thanx in advance.

[raghavendra]

Hi
I dont think conio.h is available....... is specific to Borland / Inprise ("turbo") compilers.
Just delete the getch(), clrscr() function if you have in your program and compile

[raghavendra]

You might also be interested in ncurses
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Pr...ro.html#WHATIS
That might help

[prashant]

Yes I am very much interested in "curses.h" as i have found soe thing on net regarding it istead of conio but can't exactly relate what is it all about.

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by prashant

I am wondering that whatever programs i am makin in linux including "conio.h" in my program are giving the errors that conio.h does not exists so i could not fi gure out whats wrong with the file when it works in the windows platform eaasily without any problems

Linux is not Windows. That's the first thing you must learn.
This means any Windows-specific libraries, APIs and header files just don't exist.

[Daverz]

Originally Posted by prashant

Hi ppl !!
I am wondering that whatever programs i am makin in linux including "conio.h" in my program are giving the errors that conio.h does not exists so i could not fi gure out whats wrong with the file when it works in the windows platform eaasily without any problems
Whats wrong with the file in Linux platform. Does some one has anyidea of whats going wrong with it and what can be the possible solution of the problem. Thanx in advance.

The old DOS conio assumed a single user sitting in front of the console. Unix was a multi-user, networked OS from the beginning, so that wouldn't work, a more general (and thus harder to configure) terminal handling API is needed called termios.

I think the book Linux Application Development does a really good job at covering this:

http://www.danlj.org/mkj/lad/contents.html

They cover basic TTY handling and the S-Lang screen handling library, which is an alternative to ncurses. At an even higher level, there's the newt library.
Another thing to check out is the dialog utility

man dialog