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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Another issue I'm running into which should be fun, is VT escape sequences<br><br>eg:<br>170 PRINT ESC+"Y"+CHR$(53)+CHR$(33);\INPUT #1;"PRESS RETURN TO CONTINUE";A$<br><br>That puts the cursor at a specific place on screen,<br>these were built on VT-52 and VT-100 terminals with fixed screen size.<br>using Linux you can get ANSI support, but the screen could be a vastly different size,<br>of course, we can just make it run like normal.<br><br>the other problem is the escape sequences themselves may not work any more.<br>they seem to work in Linux with ANSI enabled,<br>will they work on Mac CLI (maybe) or DOS/Windows ? portability is important.<br><br>But, I'm not going to do a ton of work writing cursor routines for a dozen basic programs from the 80's.<br><br>and btw freepascal has incredible string handling for those doubters out there...<br><br>Dan.<br> </div></body>
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