Portability

[rwmarsh]

I was curious about the portability of some of the standard headers. For example, I know that <windows.h> is for machines running windows, but what about conio and conio2? I understand that they are not protable but what OSs will they run under. I was also curious about PDcurses. I have downloaded the dev pak but I have not been able to find much on documentation so I am unscertain about the functins available with it and how to use them. Can PDcurses run under any OS?

[laserlight]

I was curious about the portability of some of the standard headers. For example, I know that <windows.h> is for machines running windows, but what about conio and conio2?

All three headers mentioned are not standard headers.

I understand that they are not protable but what OSs will they run under.

From what I understand, conio is a Borland specific library that happens to have rough equivalents with similiar functionality implemented by Microsoft and the MinGW port of GCC (all under MS Windows).

[Cactus_Hugger]

conio isn't portable. It's a DOS header, and there are some translations to windows. The fun ends there afaik.
I'd go with PDcurses. curses is implemented under Windows, *nix, OS/2 that I know of (hopefully there's a Mac implementation somewhere...) - my preference when doing fancy terminal stuff.
"Can PDcurses run under any OS?"
No. "any OS" is a broad range of things. The software powering my calculator when I turn it on is an OS in it's respect, and curses will in no way run there. But curses should cover >95% of machines you find (unless you're dealing with some really exotic stuff) with minimal portability issues. I've used curses under both Linux & Windows. (ncurses and PDcurses.)