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From: Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>
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Subject: Re: Clear screen
Date: 6 Nov 2001 21:25:04 GMT
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David Tumpa <dtumpa@home.com> wrote:

> I am using the Aonix compiler on Windows ME and NT 4.0.  Can anyone give me
> the code to clear the screen with this compiler.

Perhaps your screen understands some ESC-sequences... a general
solution would be:

  procedure ClearScreen is
  begin
    Text_IO.Put (Item => ASCII.ESC);
    Text_IO.Put (Item => "[2J");
  end ClearScreen;

Feel free to optimize it :)

Taken from:

--::::::::::
--screen.adb
--::::::::::
with Text_IO;
package body Screen is

  -- simple ANSI terminal emulator
  -- Michael Feldman, The George Washington University
  -- July, 1995

  -- These procedures will work correctly only if the actual
  -- terminal is ANSI compatible. ANSI.SYS on a DOS machine
  -- will suffice.



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