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From: rind@hscfvax.uucp (747707@d.rind)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: window() problems in turbo 5.5
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Date: 24 Sep 90 14:47:18 GMT
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In article <15445.26f8cfbb@levels.sait.edu.au> xanuttall@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
>I have noticed using Turbo Pascal 5.5 that when you use the crt
>procedure window to to change the screen borders, when you select a
>region only 1 line high, it spits the dummy and scrolls the rest of the
>screen.  I can find no mention of it in the manual.
>for loop := 0 to 3999 do
>mem[$b000:loop] := random(255);  { $b800 for colour screens }
>window(1,1,50,1);
>writeln('Hi there');

I'm not sure what you mean by "spits the dummy", but if I understand
what this program is intended to do I think your problem is that
you are using Writeln instead of Write.  Writeln is necessarily causing
a line feed at the end of your output line, and if you are directing
that output into a one line high window the line feed scrolls the
window and moves your line of text out.
Try substituting the line: Write('Hi there'); for your line.
But perhpaps I'm misunderstanding your question.

   David Rind          rind@hscfvax.harvard.edu