Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca!buckland From: buckland@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: please tell me how to print to the same location on screen no CR/LF Message-ID: <1991Feb15.171146.28578@unixg.ubc.ca> Date: 15 Feb 91 17:11:46 GMT References: <59986@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@unixg.ubc.ca (Usenet News Maintenance) Organization: Computing Services, University of British Columbia Lines: 20 In article <59986@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >I am printing a series of messages that say: > >Processing number 1 >Processing number 2 >processing number 3 >etc...... > >Now, when I am processing many hundreds of numbers, this looks >kinda kludgy. Is there a way, using standard F77 (*NO* extensions) >to have it merely overwrite the number at the same location??? If you're really printing them, that would result in a big black blob :) Seriously, please post what platform you are doing this on. If it has a "put on the same line" carriage-control character, you can write this as the first character of the output record to force successive records to be put on the same line instead of the default of immediately succeeding lines.