Re: DOS or Windows Console I/O

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

Stephane Richard wrote:
> 
> From what I've read in the Ada95 RM and on multiple source examples, I dont
> believe Ada95, be it for DOS or Windows Console Text mode, does colors, or
> does rectangular scrolling, or nothing of the sort.  (Pascal programmers
> will recognize the commands I'm looking for in Ada :-) and for that matter,
> they will also know I'm looking for a Crt Library equivalent for ada :-)..

I've used Turbo Pascal, and know what you're talking about, but they're 
not part of Pascal.

If you're using DOS or Win 95/98/ME, you can load ANSI.SYS and use ANSI 
escape sequences to do what you want. This has the advantage that it's 
portable to most text windows on other systems, such a Xterms on UNIX 
systems.

If you're using NT/2k/XP, that won't work. You need to get something 
that makes the NT calls. For that I've used NT_Console by Jerry van 
Dijk. The URL is not included with the distribution, but I suspect a 
little work with Google should find it for you.

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Jeff Carter
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