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Subject: Re: another text_io
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On 22 Dec 2002 06:40:23 -0600, Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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>> - 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).