thank, you, but the cursor is not in line1, col 1 location after 25 new_line. and the set_col and set_line ... ? "Sune Falck" a �crit dans le message news: Pc5Y4.1746$b55.4361@nntpserver.swip.net... > In article , "MARIE Eric" wrote: > >what's Clearscreen for win 98, please. > >and for Unix HP UX with VT 100 Emulation. > > > > > The simple and "portable" way to clear the screen is to > write enough New_Line:s to scroll the the visible text > out of the screen. > > Example: > > with Ada.Text_IO; > procedure Clear_Screen is > begin > Ada.Text_IO.New_Line (25); > Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("The screen was cleared"); > end Clear_Screen; > > This works for Windows 98 in a console window and > for all different terminal emulations in the unix world. > > Sune Falck >