From: nickroberts@ukf.net (Nick Roberts)
Subject: Re: Some general help with Ada
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 00:43:56 GMT
Date: 2002-04-08T00:43:56+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cb0b18c.163952246@news.cis.dfn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a6eb1q$9281@news.cis.okstate.edu
On 10 Mar 2002 00:57:30 GMT, David Starner
<dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> strongly typed:
>On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:46:38 -0000, chris.danx <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> "Jim" <genx54321@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ab6237e2.0203091102.103d54e9@posting.google.com...
>>> how do you create a blank screen like the CLS command in Qbasic/DOS ?
>>>
>>> can you do it with text_io ?
>>
>> ada.text_io.new_line (26); is quick and easy.
>
>And wrong. There's no guarentee that the terminal is only 26 lines tall.
And I think it's wrong for you to say "wrong". There's 'no guarantee' that
the user will be the slightest bit worried that only part of the screen was
cleared. In fact, I suspect it is almost guaranteed that the user won't be.
--
Nick Roberts
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2002-03-09 19:02 Some general help with ADA Jim
2002-03-09 19:46 ` Some general help with Ada chris.danx
2002-03-10 0:57 ` David Starner
2002-04-08 0:43 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2002-03-09 20:13 ` Some general help with ADA Adrian Knoth
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