From: see@messagebody.com (Jan)
Subject: Re: another text_io
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:03:53 GMT
Date: 2002-12-22T18:03:53+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e05c4f2.8805421@news.freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 40ZjOopnwCeR@eisner.encompasserve.org
On 22 Dec 2002 06:40:23 -0600, Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
wrote:
>> - place the cursor wherever I want (like gotoxy in Pascal)
>
>That sounds like some vendor-specific add-on rather than Standard Pascal.
Well, that's implemented in Borland/Turbo Pascal, Free Pascal, GNU
Pascal, ...
>of those do not adequately emulate the relevant hardware. For the
>terminal emulator that ships with Microsoft Windows, the lack of
>correspondence to the hardware is legendary.
That's true, I have noticed that the terminal in Win2000 is _very_
slow (especially keyboard responses), and is even not fully compatible
with DOS (just to say some examples: blinking text is not supported
and the character (ascii) table is different).
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-22 12:24 another text_io Jan
2002-12-22 12:40 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-22 18:03 ` Jan [this message]
2002-12-22 23:15 ` Gautier
2002-12-22 13:11 ` Michal Nowak
2002-12-22 13:55 ` Jan
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