Re: clearing a screen in ada? (new to ada)

[tmoran@bix.com]

>is there just no way that ADA can place cursor's on non ANSI standard desktops?
  In some cases the answer may be yes.  Your typical missile, for
instance, has no "ANSI standard desktops", and indeed even an Ada
program cannot place a cursor on a non-existent screen.

  However, the original question was rather specific:

>I am using GNAT on a PC using the ADAGIDE, we basically are only
>allowed to use the standard libs/packages that come with gnat, and I was
>hoping to find infor for moving the cursor round the screen such as using a
  I think Mike Feldman's "screen" package is normally automatically
installed in the act\gnat\examples directory.  If the lack of ANSI
screen control prevents its use, and using anything from outside
the GNAT installation is really disallowed, then either OS calls
or hardware IO are obviously required, both of which can be done
with GNAT.  As I recall, Cohen's book "Ada as a second language"
has an example of direct screen access on a PC.