Re: for a beginner...

["B. Douglas Hilton" <doug.hilton@engineer.com>]

Ah, hey dude, whats happenin!

If you have gnat, then use, argh.. I forget... Gnat.OS?

use Gnat.OS

    ...
    Gnat.OS.System("cls");

Help me out here vets, I forget the exact Annex...

If you have ANSI.SYS loaded, the code is ESC[2J

There is a small annex called "screen" that acts like
an ANSI terminal emulator and even works with Win2k,
which Win2k has more or less disables ANSI.SYS if
you use CMD.EXE, old COMMAND.COM still has
it but there are problems using it.

    I hate M$! When they screwed up ANSI.SYS that
was the final straw. Now I can't even have a colorized
DOS-Box prompt thanks to those idiots. With the kind
of work I do, I need super automatic batch-mode, not
click "OK" ten thousand times in a row every ten seconds.

( And I'm sure as sh!t not going to buy "Visual Studio" when
I already have gnat / gtkAda working! )

Cheers!
- Doug


Beau wrote:

> Is there an easy way to do a clear screen for the dos prompt?
> like I have a bunch of data that I have put pauses in. It would be very
> helpful if I could clear the screen after every pause. thanks,
> --
> ~Beau~
> beau@hiwaay.net