[Tutor] carriage return on windows

Jacob S. keridee at jayco.net
Sun Jan 30 04:28:19 CET 2005


Thanks Kent and Max!!!!!

Wow, I didn't know it did that. I'm too dumb to figure it out on my own I 
guess...
Oh well! I found a cool new thing to play with at least!

Thanks,
Jacob



>
> On Jan 30, 2005, at 02:40, Jacob S. wrote:
>
>> I don't think that's what he wants. I think he wants to *overwrite* 
>> what's in the shell with new output.
>> For example.
>>
>>
>> so that the whole line is overwritten. In my experience, this is not 
>> possible and if anyone can show me how to do it,
>> I would be grateful.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jacob
>
> It *is* possible, that's exactly what my code does (well, as long as you 
> don't run it on Mac OS 9). The carriage return (\r, as opposed to the 
> linefeed \n) moves the cursor to the beginning of the *current* line.
>
> -- Max
> maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019
> "Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and 
> sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge a 
> perfect, immortal machine?"
>
>
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