Re: Newbie: display control

["Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com>]

> 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.

The problem is basically Microsoft. Since their earliest days, they have
resisted proper interpretation of the ANSI escape sequences. Under MS-DOS,
they were available only if the ANSI.SYS driver was installed. That was
somewhat forgivable back then, given how difficult managing memory on first
generation PC's were. What is more difficult to understand is why there is
no ANSI support for the CLI under Win32, where memory is no longer the issue
it used to be.