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From: ca055@unocss.UUCP (David B. Caplinger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: reliably returning the cursor position on a vt2xx
Message-ID: <240@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 00:38:54 GMT
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Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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Sorry if this is a dumb place to put this, but I don't know where /else/ to
send it...

I'm trying to run a process in the background (via spawn/nowait/noinput)
that takes over the top 4 lines of the screen, sets up the scroll region below
that (so it won't get erased), and update the display on top every 30 seconds.

The only problem I have so far is: The cursor never goes back to the original
position after the background process updates.  Sure, I used ESC 7 and ESC 8,
but the cursor still winds up on the beginning of the next line, after scroll-
ing the lower region.  Argh!  (I added a reverse-index at the end, and now it's
on the same /line/ at least, but the coloumn is still wrong.)

Is there any way to make sure the cursor position is retored /where it left
off/, instead of the next line?  (Perhaps it /is/, and it's getting moved
somehow?  Has anyone else had a problem like this?)

-/ Dave Caplinger /-
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