McFadden, Mike said:
>
> When we replaced our VT52's we found out you could send out series of cursor
> control codes on VT100's to move the cursor and then output a character.
> Early star trek games on video terminals used this instead of sending out
> spaces and characters. You could also plot line graphs and barcharts using
> control codes.
In fact, many things (like xterm) still support that. I use it to move the
cursor to the upper-right corner of my screen, print the time, move back to
the lower-left and display a prompt as part of my bash setup :) it works
right in xterm and on most vt100-emulating terminals I've used...
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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Received on Thu Aug 16 2001 - 16:22:22 BST