VMS Help CC, Run-time functions, getyx  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  Curses Screen Management function that puts the (y,x) coordinates
  of the current cursor position on win in the variables y and x.

  Syntax:

       #include <curses.h>

       getyx(WINDOW *win, int y, int x);