Re: Multiple questions on MS-DOS

[L-28C <kixdemp@...>]

Yeah, I'll use ANSI.SYS. I found out I didn't need the \x escape 
sequences, I can just do CTRL+P and ALT+27 to generate the \x1b that I need.

Now, a fourth question:

4) How can I read a single character? io.read(1) waits for Enter to be 
pressed, I need it to not do that...

Thanks!

Stefan Sandberg wrote:
> You can do all sorts of funky stuff in textmode in dos.. I wrote a 
> textmode renderer once, but I doubt I can find it anymore..
>
> This is a good place for resources..
>
> http://www.taat.fi/tmdc/
>
> L-28C wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > So I finally got Lua to compile under DJGPP... Now I have a few 
> > questions:
> >
> > 1) Is there any game dev library on this platform? Can LuAllegro 
> > somehow be compiled here?
> >
> > 2) How do you send escape sequences (like \x1b in C)?
> >
> > 3) [Example] How do you make command-line progress bars without ANSI? 
> > I see many programs using them, however I don't know how they do it... 
> > I thought "send multiple backspaces and redraw it", but that would 
> > cause flicker wouldn't it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!