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Subject: Re: Newbie: display control
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In article <17cd177c.0303020211.7097abb@posting.google.com>, gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier) writes:

> The designers of Ada have always been very careful not hooking the
> language into a specific system (for Ada83 even too minimalist, e.g.
> the missing math libraries). You terminal issue is a good example
> of the pertinence of this carefulness: in 1983 the terminals had
> perhaps the "set cursor position" feature, but a normal command
> line window in 2003 provide basically not more functionality than
> what you find in Ada.Text_IO.

That certainly depends on what you mean by "normal".  When I must use
a machine like Microsoft Windows* or Macintosh that does not come with
a terminal emulator, I buy a terminal emulator product for it.

On VMS workstations, a terminal emulator comes as part of the DECwindows
Motif software.

"Command line window", I presume describes Microsoft systems.  Doesn't
Unix do better ?

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*Microsoft Windows comes with a terminal emulator that cannot even
 properly display a minimal Notes screen, so that does not count.