Re: [LIP] How does mplayer or wget display their output??

>>>>> "Vardhman" == Vardhman Jain <[email protected]> writes:

    Vardhman> Hi, I used to think that Mplayer and wget refreshes the
    Vardhman> same line in a console output using a ncurses library
    Vardhman> support, but I realize ncurses needs a new screen to be
    Vardhman> set up to start with. Wget and Mplayer gives their
    Vardhman> output on the console printing it starting from the line
    Vardhman> where the command was given, so I believe they donot use
    Vardhman> ncurses. can some one tell me how to achieve a similar
    Vardhman> output(refreshing the same line on console on update).

while ( ... )
{
    ...
    printf ( "<refreshing data here>\r" ) ;
    ...
}

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