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Postings from January 2002
ghawk@eskimo.com (Gary Hawkins) writes:
> How can I clear a line before replacing it?
If you are trying to output to a terminal, this is probably
a termcap question. Try looking for "clear to end of line"
in a termio or termcap module. It will necessarily depend
on they kind of terminal you have, but the function call
should hide that from you.
> Am doing \r and overwriting,
\r is literally "carriage return" from the days of paper
terminals when the thing that wrote the type (literlly the
typewriter) was carried on a carriage. It works on CRT's
when followed by line-feed (what used to advance the paper),
but without the line-feed, the characters already on the
line remain.
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Michael R. Wolf
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