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Re: Printing Backspace Character on Windows Workbench [message #67333]

Thu, 16 July 2009 08:32

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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On Jul 16, 10:23 am, Vince Hradil <vincehra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 16, 9:30 am, Tony <tonyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> Hi all,
>
>> I'm trying to do something like:
>
>> PRO overwrite
>> print, 1, format='(%"%1I",$)'
>> wait, 2
>> print, 2, format='(%"\b%1I")'
>> END
>
>> which should print '1' on one line, wait a couple seconds, and then
>> erase '1' and print '2'. Of course this works just as planned on a
>> linux box from the command line, but not quite as well on windows
>> using the 7.0 Workbench, where the output looks like 1'box'2, where
>> 'box' is just a box-like symbol. It's obviously not interpreting the
>> backspace character correctly. Does anybody know how (or if it is
>> possible) to tell the Workbench console to backspace? (if I may use
>> that as a verb)
>
>> Thanks,
>> Tony
>
> Have you tried sending a string(8b)?

Yeah - that doesn't work either...

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