Re: Newbie: display control

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)]

["normal" command line window in 2003]

Larry Kilgallen:

> That certainly depends on what you mean by "normal".  When I must use
> a machine like Microsoft Windows* or Macintosh that does not come with
> a terminal emulator, I buy a terminal emulator product for it.
> 
> On VMS workstations, a terminal emulator comes as part of the DECwindows
> Motif software.
> 
> "Command line window", I presume describes Microsoft systems.  Doesn't
> Unix do better ?

And VMS even better!
Well, a command line window (a representation of standard_output where
you can buffer thousands of lines) is no terminal emulator (a rectangle
text area). If you want a terminal emulator on today's graphics systems,
of course you can find one. The NT/2K/XP command line window turns into
a DOS screen without problem and I'm using Volkov Commander or
other DOS programs with pleasure. There all Ada bindings you want to
terminals (and emulators).

My point is that fortunately the Ada standard did *not* get trapped into
this (even, any ?) time-limited and system-dependent technology.
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