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From: "GlesgaMick" <sikmick@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Why do the escape sequences not work?
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 08:55:41 -0400
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According to what iv'e read, the commands to clear the screen are:

Ada.Text_IO.Put(Item => ASCII.ESC);
Ada.Text_IO.Put(Item => "[2J");

on my compuer they simply make the text value of ESC apear followed by the
[2J.  I'm using Windows ME at the command prompt. and suspect it has
sometyhing to do with the way the OS recognised escape codes... but ca
anyone direct me somewhere where i can find the right escape codes?