Print spinning cursor in a terminal running application using C

Question

How would I print a spinning curser in a utility that runs in a terminal using standard C?

I\'m looking for something that prints: \\ | / - over and over in the same pos

Answer 1

There is no truly "standard" way to do this, since the C Standard Library (http://members.aol.com/wantondeb/) does not provide functions to do raw terminal/console output.

In DOS/Windows console, the standard-ish way to do it is with conio.h, while under Unix/Linux the accepted library for this purpose is ncurses (ncurses basically encapsulates the control-character behavior that MBCook describes, in a terminal-independent way).