Re: for a beginner...

["Beau" <beau@hiwaay.net>]

that ansi.sys thing can you explain that to me? because my prof said that to
see and use some of the screen pakcages that came with the book. do you know
what I am talking about? if you do, can you tell me how to use it?
--
~Beau~
beau@hiwaay.net

"B. Douglas Hilton" <doug.hilton@engineer.com> wrote in message
news:3B4515F8.3076B3A6@engineer.com...
> Ah, hey dude, whats happenin!
>
> If you have gnat, then use, argh.. I forget... Gnat.OS?
>
> use Gnat.OS
>
>     ...
>     Gnat.OS.System("cls");
>
> Help me out here vets, I forget the exact Annex...
>
> If you have ANSI.SYS loaded, the code is ESC[2J
>
> There is a small annex called "screen" that acts like
> an ANSI terminal emulator and even works with Win2k,
> which Win2k has more or less disables ANSI.SYS if
> you use CMD.EXE, old COMMAND.COM still has
> it but there are problems using it.
>
>     I hate M$! When they screwed up ANSI.SYS that
> was the final straw. Now I can't even have a colorized
> DOS-Box prompt thanks to those idiots. With the kind
> of work I do, I need super automatic batch-mode, not
> click "OK" ten thousand times in a row every ten seconds.
>
> ( And I'm sure as sh!t not going to buy "Visual Studio" when
> I already have gnat / gtkAda working! )
>
> Cheers!
> - Doug
>
>
> Beau wrote:
>
> > Is there an easy way to do a clear screen for the dos prompt?
> > like I have a bunch of data that I have put pauses in. It would be very
> > helpful if I could clear the screen after every pause. thanks,
> > --
> > ~Beau~
> > beau@hiwaay.net
>