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From: rrk@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Continuously running clock
Message-ID: <91rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 7 Mar 88 00:10:12 GMT
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First make sure that your entire update occurs in a single QIO -- Just be
sure you concat everything together before sending it out.  Then add <ESC>7
to the beginning of the string (this saves the cursor position) and <ESC>8
to the end.  I've used this for lots of things and it works as long as your
clock update doesn't do something stupid like scrolling the display.  Naturally
if your display scrolls anyway, your previous clock will have moved, etc.

I don't know of an easy way to do this through SMG, and I'm not likely to
look since my opinion of SMG as it currently exists is very low.