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Re: Overwriting the terminal output line [message #29400 is a reply to message #29323]

Fri, 15 February 2002 11:20

K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <2aa6be0a.0202150853.181a3090@posting.google.com>,
weitkamp@esrf.fr (Timm Weitkamp) wrote:

> I don't know how STATUSLINE works or what can be termed "simple", but
> the following small modification to Ken's code (putting a CR in the
> format string) works on VT-52 compatible terminals (is that the same
> as ANSI?). I think it fails on Windows though (because the CR makes a
> new line there). Here it is:
>
> FOR i = 0, 10 DO PRINT, i, FORMAT = '($, "i = " ,I4,
> "'+STRING(13B)+'")'

This also works on a VT100 and is simpler than George McCabe's solution
(using backspaces?).

Still doesn't work on my Mac though (CR makes a new line, similar to windows).

Thanks for the help,

Ken

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		Overwriting the terminal output line By: K. Bowman on Thu, 14 February 2002 10:05
		Re: Overwriting the terminal output line By: K. Bowman on Fri, 15 February 2002 11:20
		Re: Overwriting the terminal output line By: george.mccabe on Fri, 15 February 2002 09:05
		Re: Overwriting the terminal output line By: R.Bauer on Fri, 15 February 2002 04:03

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