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From: null@rimfaxe.diku.dk (Niels Ull Jacobsen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v11i171: locate, cmd line cursor position (part 01/01)
Keywords: batch, util, cursor
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.131334.12783@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 15 Apr 91 13:13:34 GMT
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In article <1991Apr14.172803.19169@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> 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)?

I think it is "just that". I don't usually have ansi.sys (or a variant)
loaded, and I can't depend on all other potential users having one. And
it is MUCH easier not to have to go look up some weird ANSI codes each 
time. Of course, at home I use 4dos which have these features build in,
so I only need this utility when distributing disks with "install-omatic"
batch files.

> 
> ...................................................................
> Prof. Timo Salmi        
> Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
> School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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