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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: GNAT Ada - Clear Screen
Date: 18 Apr 2003 19:54:28 +0200
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tmoran@acm.org writes:

>   I note "ansi.sys" is present in my w2k's winnt\system32 directory, but
> I haven't actually tried it.  Windows really prefers that you use their
> GUI rather than text mode.

This is only for DOS apps. It is not used for Windows apps. You need a
DOS Ada compiler to use ANSI escape codes with NT. The proper
functions for Windows apps are the Windows console API. Specifically
to clear the console screen in Windows use this method:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b99261

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