[Info-vax] Screen management in C

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On Fri, 2024-12-27 at 14:34 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > This has been discussed previously here:
> > 
> > https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/ufBEqvGdglU
> > 
> > That discussion has pointers to various examples,
> 
> In general VMS Pascal/VMS Basic code should be maybe 25% shorter
> than equivalent C code. But with a descriptor centric API like
> SMG$ then it may be more like 40% shorter.
> 
> One could make a nice wrapper in C++ encapsulating the context
> and convert between stl::string / C char array and descriptors.
> 
> But then a full screen VT UI is a concept that has been obsolete
> for 30 years, so maybe there is little point.

People are still writing apps using the console. 
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