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From: dedalus@athena.mit.edu (Lewis J. Gramer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Changing title bar in Full Screen OS2
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.001907.13989@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 2 Aug 90 00:19:07 GMT
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Using the ANSI escape sequences in  your prompt is the (much simpler) accepted
way to add weird stuff to your full-screen session. For instance, there
are escape
sequences for putting the cursor anywhere on the screen, for "pushing"
the current
positiion of the cursor to pop later, for printing the current time,
date, working dir,
changing colors, changing bold/normal/blinking, you name it!

What's more, this technique works just as well in any DOS (after
1.mumble) as in OS/2.

The only drawback to this approach is that your clock on gets updated
each time
you hit enter... If this is liveable, then just check you r DOS or OS/2
tech ref  for the
appropriate escape sequences to do all of this.

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