I have tried to print a simple ASCII art in Perl. The problem I am running into is that if my terminal window is 80x25 characters, then every time I print the last character in the lower right-hand corner, the little cursor wants to jump over to the next line which causes the entire screen to scroll up by one line. Then the first line disappears and the bottom line becomes blank. So, I can never print the last character of an ASCII art picture. Is there a way to do this somehow without using graphics? I wanted to print a full-screen ASCII art that covers the entire 80x25 screen without jumping over to the next line. Once the last character is printed, I want the program to sleep for a second before clearing the screen and then printing another full-screen text art. So, the result would be like an animation.

80 x 25 = 2000

If I print 1999 characters, it doesn't scroll. But the picture doesn't look good when the bottom right-hand corner character is always missing. :(

In reply to 80x25 ASCII text art in terminal by harangzsolt33

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