mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) (09/18/90)
How can one, without writing DIRECTLY to the screen and without
using ANSICON, control the starting position of the cursor so that
output to the screen will occur at a specified position.
Maybe what I'm asking is "How does ANSICON control the cursor?"
I've looked through the PUP and DOS manuals without success;
where should I look next? Since the Z-100 supposedly acts like
a Heath 19 terminal (is this equivalent to a VT-52?), I presume
there are control codes which, somehow/somewhere, cause the
cursor to move. WHO/WHAT interprets these codes? Or are there
special parameters carried in registers to control the cursor?
Should I be looking for BIOS_CONFUNC or MTR-100 write-ups?
--Myron.
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In article <1990Sep18.152911.25955@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) writes: >How can one, without writing DIRECTLY to the screen and without >using ANSICON, control the starting position of the cursor so that >output to the screen will occur at a specified position. > Myron, You're making it harder than it is... Check out Appendix B in the 'white' manual. Excerpts below: ESC A -- cursor up ESC B -- cursor down ESC C -- cursor right etcetera The 'ESC' is 01bh and 'A' is 041h, etc. fragment example -- rem cursor up one line print chr$(27),"A" rem chr$(27) = ESC; "A" = letter 'A' Now, if only I could determine how to use the related escape code to determine whether a Z-100 has color video..... Walt K.