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Subject: RE: GOTOXY IN ADA ?
From: michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Hagerty)
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 94 18:06:00 -0800
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Date: 1994-12-19T18:06:00-08:00
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On 12-12-94, Keith Thompson responded to Dave Retherford:

KT> Sorry, this won't work.  The Set_Col and Set_Line routines won't move the
  > cursor to a previous line or to a previous column on the current line.
  > For example, if the current column number is 20, Text_IO.Set_Col(10) will
  > call New_Line and then output 10 spaces; likewise, Set_Line calls New_Page
  > if necessary (which may or may not clear the screen; typically it won't).

An easier method might be to get the AdaSAGE library for your library.  There
is a gotoxy equivalent routine in there, although it does assume that your
screen is only 2-digit columns wide.  I fixed it for ours and it handles
screens up to 999 columns wide.

Regards, Mikey <michael.hagerty@nitelog.com>
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