Re: DOS or Windows Console I/O

[Dmytry Lavrov <m31415@mail.ru>]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> In article <8Gx_a.2094$jw4.1318@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>, "Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I've asked this before, but accidents in my system (windows and my CPU
> > collided dramatically, there was no survivors hehe)...so I'd like to, if I
> > may, inquire one more time.
> >
> > 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 :-)..
> 
> No, as a Pascal programmer I do not recognize that at all.
> 
> Are you perhaps thinking of a particular Pascal compiler on a particular
> operating system ?  I do not believe any of what you describe is in the
> Pascal standard.

He mean TurboPascal...
CRT unit in TP allow to scroll up and down,change colors,change video
mode,etc...
of output from standard textIO to console.
i.e.
TextColor(10);
Writeln(' Hello, World!. (color 10,green) ');
{and this "10" green looks really "poisonous"}

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