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From: aurele.vitali@sympatico.ca (Aurele Vitali)
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Subject: Re: Newbie: display control
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"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com> wrote in message news:<b3t46r$mfe$1@bob.news.rcn.net>...
> > "Command line window", I presume describes Microsoft systems.  Doesn't
> > Unix do better ?
> 
> Unix and VMS both support ANSI escape sequences. Win32 does not, but there
> are API calls for doing many of the same things.

If working on Win32, you can use the following API functions to
control your console cursor position (works well with the standard Ada
Text_IO package):

1) Wincon.SetConsoleCursorPosition ==> Sets the cursor position (Col,
Row)
2) Wincon.SetConsoleTextAttribute ==> Set the text color (including
background)
3) Wincon.SetConsoleCursorInfo ==> Changes the corsor shape.

You can also check out some of the other Win32 API function in the
Win32Ada Wincon package for more functionality.