From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7b30cb68d25aebb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-13 16:56:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Stephane Richard" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <8Gx_a.2094$jw4.1318@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> <4iPzUSLmXU12@eisner.encompasserve.org> Subject: Re: DOS or Windows Console I/O X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:56:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.44.82.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1060818973 129.44.82.194 (Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:56:13 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:56:13 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41419 Date: 2003-08-13T23:56:13+00:00 List-Id: I didn't say the "pascal standard", I said Pascal as in Pascal compilers, it's called the Crt Unit, and it gives fonctions such as: TextColor TextBackground GotoXY Window functions....Free Pascal has it, Borland pascal had it, Virtual Pascal has it, GNU Pascal I believe uses something different, but I'd have to double check if it has a Crt Unit or not. Anyway I'm not looking for Pascal on this forum, but these are the kind of functions I'm looking for. :-) -- St�phane Richard Senior Software and Technology Supervisor http://www.totalweb-inc.com For all your hosting and related needs "Larry Kilgallen" wrote in message news:4iPzUSLmXU12@eisner.encompasserve.org... > In article <8Gx_a.2094$jw4.1318@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>, "Stephane Richard" writes: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've asked this before, but accidents in my system (windows and my CPU > > collided dramatically, there was no survivors hehe)...so I'd like to, if I > > may, inquire one more time. > > > > From what I've read in the Ada95 RM and on multiple source examples, I dont > > believe Ada95, be it for DOS or Windows Console Text mode, does colors, or > > does rectangular scrolling, or nothing of the sort. (Pascal programmers > > will recognize the commands I'm looking for in Ada :-) and for that matter, > > they will also know I'm looking for a Crt Library equivalent for ada :-).. > > No, as a Pascal programmer I do not recognize that at all. > > Are you perhaps thinking of a particular Pascal compiler on a particular > operating system ? I do not believe any of what you describe is in the > Pascal standard.