an odd question

From: McFadden, Mike <mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu>
Date: Wed Aug 22 11:26:06 2001

weird characters, cursor control, bells and whistles
I believe the "\n", "\t" and other conventions are linked to the printf
function in C. For example if you want to a print a non scrolling list of
lines processed you could send out lines to printf a 5 character number and
then use "\b\b\b\b\b" to reposition the cursor at the start of the number so
that the next print command overwrites it. The effect is handy with
terminals kind of a pain on a LA34 where the printing is overwritten on the
paper

Mike
mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 11:26:06 BST