[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The point is: an exact question needs an exact answer.
Except for Craig's understandable but unfortunate need to take shots at old DOS programmers, he gave you the right answer---and to the extent that "exactness" matters, it is also exact. You asked, more or less, "How do I do terminal handling in Unix just like I did in DOS". Craig answered, more or less, "Unix is not DOS, and the way things are done in Unix are not the same as how they are done in DOS." If you don't like that answer, that's fine, but you shouldn't cast aspersions on Craig for giving the correct answer to a question that probably shouldn't have been asked here in the first place---this is not a Unix Programming class. Mike.
