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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X (CONSOLE_IO)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 17:23:21 -0700
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"Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote:

> - a *simple* console I/O package (text terminal). These days one can assume
> at least a vt100. Preferably something that works seamlessly with both 7 and
> 8 bit escape sequences.

I realize it is MS-specific, at present, but the Jerry Van Dijk Console_IO
package turns out to be pretty good.   My students at NPS use if for some
of their programming problems.

Richard Riehle