Subject: Re: 2nd stage boot menu (i386)
To: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
From: David Holland <dholland+netbsd@eecs.harvard.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/14/2007 17:36:19
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:41:10AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I wasn't proposing using curses,
> it's just that the menu code I have currently uses it. The code could be
> used with another method of positioning (and thus lose the reliance on
> curses entirely).
There's a BIOS function to move the visible cursor - no idea what it
is any more, but any sufficiently old DOS programming reference will
have it. (To issue text, you just scribble in the ISA video memory.)
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- David A. Holland / dholland+netbsd@eecs.harvard.edu