From: Robert Uhl on
I've used cl-ncurses for this kind of thing:

(keypad (initscr) 1)
(curs-set 0)
(getch)

That should do the trick!

--
Robert A. Uhl
Understanding how to cope with radical Islam can be usefully supplemented by
reading Robert A. Heinlein, say, or Vernor Vinge--rather than the editorial
pages of the Guardian or the Independent. --Tanuki