ugmuldoo@sunybcs.uucp (Thomas Muldoon) (03/05/89)
Does anybody out there own or have programmed in OSS's Personal Pascal? I'm having a few problems. First does Personal have a random number generator? I looked all around and could not find one. The result is having to write my own, but I would much rather use a built in one. Second how do you clear the screen in Personal?? I know you can import the procedure Clear_Screen from the GemLib but this does not set the cursor back to the home position. Is there any clear screen or home function which does this? Thanks for any and all help Tom Muldoon V101N2QG @ubvmsc State University of New York at Buffalo
cs163afu@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Some call me...Tim) (03/06/89)
In article <4499@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugmuldoo@sunybcs.UUCP (Thomas Muldoon) writes: > ... > First does Personal have a random number generator? The easiest way to get a random number is with the XBIOS random function. FUNCTION Random : Long_Integer ; XBIOS(17) ; This returns a 24 bit random number. > ... > Second how do you clear the screen in Personal?? I usually use an escape sequence to do this. write(chr(27),'E') ; { ESCAPE 'E' -- CAPITAL E -- clears the screen } This information comes out of Atari ST Internals from Abacus Software, but there is apparently another book available that is a lot better organized, though the name escapes me...I can find it if there's any interest. ----------- Tim Mensch Disclaimer: No one is responsible EMAIL : tmensch@ucsd.edu for what I say.