[Krazy_About_Technology]

I guess you want some kind of unified solution so that your program works fine whether compiling in Windows or Linux. For that you'll have to do the one time dirty task of creating the "unified versions" of these functions in one of your custom header file. use #ifdef construct to comment out sections of your code that are irrelevent while running on a particular OS. Best way to create these unified version is to use ncurses for linux/unix and conio.h for windows.