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From: terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: ansi question for turbo 5.0+
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.134448.1140@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 22 Mar 91 13:44:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.161211.28435@javelin.es.com> <1991Mar21.102223.8284@uwasa.fi> <1991Mar22.132957.893@odin.diku.dk>
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ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup) writes:

>ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

>=>In article <1991Mar20.161211.28435@javelin.es.com> tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>=>>hey.  it's me again.

>=>Ditto :-).

>=>>does turbo 5.0 and or versions higher support ansi cursor controls (beside
>=>>the insanely rigid gotoxy)?  i _need_ to do the ansi equivelent of ~[xC
>=>>(cursor right) and clear line.

>=>Your query is a slight misunderstanding of the issue, because this
>=>is not really a question of Turbo Pascal actively supporting or not
>=>supporting something.  If you write ansi cursor controls characters
>=>with the write command, ansi.sys will function in its normal way. 
>=>(Unless you have instructed direct screen writes by including: Uses
>=>Crt). 

>If you need the Crt unit for other purposes, just add 'System.' to all
>write and writeln that has to do with the ANSI-codes, like this:

>System.Write( ... );

>This instructs the compiler to use write from the System unit instead
>of the write in the Crt unit which will replace it when 'used'.

>This should work in TP4, TP5, TP55 and TP6.

WARNING: Don't believe it! To access standard output (ie. go through dos)
         when using crt, open a file with file name ''. eg: 
               assign(output,''); rewrite(output);

Morten Welinder
terra@rimfaxe.diku.dk