Re: Carriage Return without a linefeed on Win95?

["J. Marshall" <a_revelation@hotmail.com>]

Thanks David,
That's perfect for what I need at this point.  I appreciate your time.
JM


David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote in message ...
>
>J. Marshall <a_revelation@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:rrjsivg43uk8@corp.supernews.com...
>> I'm using the GNAT AdaGIDE v6.21p (from GNAT v3.11) to develop some
simple
>> little apps to run on a Windows 95 platform (and know little of Ada, as I
>am
>> still learning).  I've looked through the documentation, but can not
>locate
>> the way to output text to the screen starting at a specific location, to
>> update a particular area of the display.  In C this is fairly easy on a
>> Windows 95 machine.  Is it possible in Ada?
>> Thanks very much.
>> JM
>
>Yes, it's very possible.  Perhaps the easiest way id to use the
capabilities
>of
>the ANSI.SYS console device driver -- available on DOS and Win9X  (i.e.,
not
>on NT)
>
>The diners program in the gnat examples directory contains a screen package
>to
>do just that.
>
>It provides for sounding the bell, clearing the screen, and positioning the
>cursor at a specified row and column.
>
>