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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Clearscreen?
Date: 2000/04/13
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In article <8d48oj$62r3@ftp.kvaerner.com>,
  "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote:
>
> SPick60809 wrote in message

> >to clear the screen to avoid clutter and confusion. I'm familiar with
> ...look for a suitable console i/o package for your operating system.
> If you don't find one there, take a look at Michael Feldmans example
...
> If you cannot find anything, then you can write your own.
> ... Find a guide to vt100/vt220/vt320/vt420/vt520 escape sequences
> If you don't like the ada i/o library, write your own stuff by
> creating your own binding to a convenient C library.


This is all very complicated. If your needs are simple and you don't
need cursor positioning or anything else sexy like that, why not just
perform a number of Ada.Text.Put_Line's equal to the number of lines on
the user's screen (usually 24 or 25)?

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