Looking for Cursor contol characters for Windows

[spanton7]

I'm writing a ruby program with runs in a Command windows (DOS Box)
on Windows 2000 and need to update certain files on the screen with out
repainting the whole screen. To accomplish this I am looking
for the table of control characters which can move the cursor
around.

Any ideas or references to packages with these capabilities
would be greatly appreciated.

John

[Aredridel]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 22:05, spanton7 wrote:

> I'm writing a ruby program with runs in a Command windows (DOS Box)
> on Windows 2000 and need to update certain files on the screen with out
> repainting the whole screen. To accomplish this I am looking
> for the table of control characters which can move the cursor
> around.
>
> Any ideas or references to packages with these capabilities
> would be greatly appreciated.

search for "ANSI control codes" or "VT100 Control codes"

ESC[$v;$hH

where ESC is the escape character, decimal 27, $v is the row, and $h is
the column, and the [, ; and H are literal.

Ari

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