How to read a character from a particular location on console?

[Prashanth Ellina]

Hi,
I need to read individual characters from the console (in DOS) using
C. Is there some function like getxy(char,x,y) ?

thanks in advance,
Prashanth Ellina

[Joona I Palaste]

Prashanth Ellina <pr*************@hotpop.com> scribbled the following:

Hi,
I need to read individual characters from the console (in DOS) using
C. Is there some function like getxy(char,x,y) ?

Not in standard C, there isn't. Standard C doesn't even know there *is*
a console in the first place.

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[Malcolm]

"Prashanth Ellina" <pr*************@hotpop.com> wrote in message

I need to read individual characters from the console (in DOS)
using C. Is there some function like getxy(char,x,y) ?

There may possibly be an extension to ANSI C that provides this and that
ships with your compiler.
Also you can often write these sorts of functions yourself by messing about
with the video buffer (obtained in a system-specific way).

However ANSI C offers no facilities for consoles other than stdin and
stdout, which you would know if you read the FAQ.

[Keith Thompson]

pr*************@hotpop.com (Prashanth Ellina) writes:

Hi,
I need to read individual characters from the console (in DOS) using
C. Is there some function like getxy(char,x,y) ?

There is no standard C function to do this, and there are plenty of
implementations where this isn't even possible. Try a DOS-specific
newsgroup.

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[Prashanth Ellina]

Thanks a lot people,will try in a DOS group

Keith Thompson <ks***@mib.org> wrote in message news:<ln************@nuthaus.mib.org>...

pr*************@hotpop.com (Prashanth Ellina) writes:

Hi,
I need to read individual characters from the console (in DOS) using
C. Is there some function like getxy(char,x,y) ?

There is no standard C function to do this, and there are plenty of
implementations where this isn't even possible. Try a DOS-specific
newsgroup.