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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v11i171: locate, cmd line cursor position (part 01/01)
Keywords: batch, util, cursor
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.172803.19169@uwasa.fi>
Date: 14 Apr 91 17:28:03 GMT
References: <3717@sixhub.UUCP>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <3717@sixhub.UUCP> ibmbin-request@crdgw1.crd.ge.com writes:
:
>LOCATE is a simple utility which places the cursor at x and y
>coordinates passed on the command line (see documentation).  Please
:

It's always very good to have new utilities into circulation.  But I
am slightly at a loss here why locating the cursor with ansi codes
in batch file operations is not sufficient.  What angle am I (and
perhaps other users) missing here?  Or is it just that the format of
a locate command is more strightforward than the more complicated
ansi codes (which require an ansi compatible driver loaded)?

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Prof. Timo Salmi        
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