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From: Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Thank you very much
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:16:53 -0500
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Stefan Kombrink wrote:

> Sending this ANSI sequences worked well for me so far, but how system
> independent is that solution?
> I remember that there was an ANSI driver for DOS as well, but nobody use
> it
> (you could demur that nobody's using DOS either!).

The ANSI sequences are obviously not the last word in terminal commands, but
they are fairly common. An ANSI terminal emulation is usually available for
most machines.

I seem to recall a package called AdaCurses that might do what you want done.
A quick search of the net revealed:
http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/contrib/libc5/i386/i386/AdaCurses-4.2-1.i386.html

You may also want to look at http://www.adapower.com/ where there are
pointers to lots of other resources that you might be able to take advantage
of.

MDC
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