Re: Alsys Ada Compiler DOS/DOSE Packages

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

Debs Wisbey wrote:
> 
> I currently have a software program that is written in Ada and built
> using the Alsys Ada 286/DOS compiler v4.3 and I am trying to port it
> to the GNAT 3.10p Ada compiler for MS-DOS.  Unfortunately, my current
> software contains numerous calls to the DOS and DOSE packages that, I
> think, are specific to the Alsys Ada compiler.

Depends on what they do. Does 3.10 come with GNAT.OS_Lib?

> Also, does anyone know if you can draw a table/grid and then populate
> it with values?  This entails positioning the cursor on the screen at
> a given co-ordinate and as of yet I cannot find a way of doing it.  My
> only solution is to redraw the screen each time values change, which
> is not very efficient.

There are a number of ways to do that for DOS. One of the more portable 
(except to Win NT/2k/XP) is with the ansi.sys driver loaded, using ANSI 
escape sequences. You can use PragmARC.ANSI_TTY_Control for many of them:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jrcarter010/pragmarc.htm

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