From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f297d5b850ee1e61 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-02 03:55:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie: display control Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 06:54:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87f5a614.0303011527.4cb09de2@posting.google.com> <17cd177c.0303020211.7097abb@posting.google.com> Reply-To: "Frank J. Lhota" X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZrYH4Dy+v4nSpv2S2NoerP+bFDg96w9Ea4XheMJfCCFuYqzf7ciAma X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Mar 2003 11:54:12 GMT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34793 Date: 2003-03-02T11:54:12+00:00 List-Id: > 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.