From: "stephane richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Why do the escape sequences not work?
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 12:58:08 GMT
Date: 2004-10-02T12:58:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ABx7d.850$6y6.258@trndny02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d23e6915629caea950f8445632cbd448@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com
"GlesgaMick" <sikmick@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d23e6915629caea950f8445632cbd448@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com...
> According to what iv'e read, the commands to clear the screen are:
>
> Ada.Text_IO.Put(Item => ASCII.ESC);
> Ada.Text_IO.Put(Item => "[2J");
>
> on my compuer they simply make the text value of ESC apear followed by the
> [2J. I'm using Windows ME at the command prompt. and suspect it has
> sometyhing to do with the way the OS recognised escape codes... but ca
> anyone direct me somewhere where i can find the right escape codes?
>
>
I believe you need your ansi.sys driver installed (if that exists in XP
:-).....it's a console problem. Only with ansi.sys installed (or emulated if
it can) can these escape commands work.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-02 12:55 Why do the escape sequences not work? GlesgaMick
2004-10-02 12:58 ` stephane richard [this message]
2004-10-02 13:02 ` stephane richard
2004-10-02 13:11 ` stephane richard
2004-10-02 13:37 ` GlesgaMick
2004-10-02 14:34 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-02 14:37 ` stephane richard
2004-10-02 23:21 ` Ross Higson
2004-10-02 23:52 ` Ross Higson
2004-10-03 0:03 ` stephane richard
2004-10-03 0:37 ` Brian May
2004-10-03 1:03 ` Ross Higson
2004-10-03 13:27 ` CBFalconer
2004-10-03 22:46 ` Brian May
2004-10-05 17:45 ` GlesgaMick
2004-10-05 19:15 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-10-05 19:32 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-05 19:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
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