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,c5c811a32f0eb4e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-02 19:07:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EDC02C9.8030209@spam.com> From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Alsys Ada Compiler DOS/DOSE Packages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 02:07:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.215 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1054606050 63.184.104.215 (Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:07:30 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:07:30 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38418 Date: 2003-06-03T02:07:30+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Jeff Carter "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK." Monty Python's Flying Circus