From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7cb9a3b53a2ac8f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-06 01:41:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.238.2.15!skynet.be!skynet.be!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Clear screen Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:13:44 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3C0F28B8.B3225796@brighton.ac.uk> References: <8BXF7.184242$5A3.69438929@news1.rdc2.pa.home.com> <3BE966CE.8D3628C1@san.rr.com> <3BF13D82.C1F9081D@brighton.ac.uk> <9trsj1$4jgf9$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9um95f$9cp80$1@ID-119234.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1007629649 3152 193.62.183.154 (6 Dec 2001 09:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Dec 2001 09:07:29 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17501 Date: 2001-12-06T09:07:29+00:00 List-Id: Daniel Krupke wrote: > > but this routine is not Clear Screen: the cursor is at bottom of the page, > but Clear Screen means that the cursor has to be at the first line! > > is there any better way? Sigh. You're back to Put(ASCII.ESC & "[2J") for an ANSI-compliant display, or Jerry van Dijk's NT Console package if you're using NT, or some other platform-dependent solution. ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------