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Printing Backspace Character on Windows Workbench [message #67335]

Thu, 16 July 2009 07:30

Tony
Messages: 6
Registered: March 2009

Junior Member

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

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