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From: koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re: How control cursor?
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Date: 19 Sep 90 12:09:03 GMT
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In article <1990Sep18.152911.25955@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) writes:
>How can one, without writing DIRECTLY to the screen and without
>using ANSICON, control the starting position of the cursor so that
>output to the screen will occur at a specified position.
>
Myron,

You're making it harder than it is...  Check out Appendix B in the 'white'
manual.  Excerpts below:

	ESC A -- cursor up
	ESC B -- cursor down
	ESC C -- cursor right
etcetera
The 'ESC' is 01bh and 'A' is 041h, etc.


fragment example --

rem cursor up one line
print chr$(27),"A"
rem chr$(27) = ESC; "A" = letter 'A' 

Now, if only I could determine how to use the related escape code to determine
whether a Z-100 has color video.....

Walt K.