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From: "Riyaz Mansoor" <s800032@student.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: clearing a screen in ada? (new to ada)
Date: 2000/03/07
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> >not being able to move the cursor back up the screen when I have
> >drawn the box is making this hell
>   If you can't/don't use ANSI.SYS, but are doing strictly output,
> how about writing into an array (1 .. 24, 1 .. 80) of Character,
> putting whatever, wherever, and then finally writing all its
> lines to the screen.

but wouldn't this put the cursor at the start of the next screen? more
precisely we'd lose the top line as it scrolls down. is there just no way
that ADA can place cursor's on non ANSI standard desktops?