Re: VAX Ada (?)

[telesoft!rlk@uunet.uu.net (Bob Kitzberger @midnight)]

>	Now my question is, does VAX Ada has anything that will make my life
>easier?  For example, do I have to treat arrow keys as characters or Ada has
>something that will it even easier?  More importantly, does VAX Ada have
>anything on formatting the CRT?  Like cursor placement, clear screen, etc or
>do I have to use the loveable VT100 escape sequences.

Take a look at the Screen Management system libraries (SMG) provided with VMS,
and callable by any language (I think ;-).  It's been a few years since
I've done any VMS work, but the last time I checked, SMG was what you want.

	.Bob.
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