I didn't think it would be that hard. Ensure Term::Screen was installed (which required that Term::Cap be installed). Do the simple commands, bidda boom, bidda bing, I have cursor positioning, clreol, all the rest that any language should provide in a plain old MS-DOS window. But noooo .. none of it works. TERM not set at C:/Perl/site/lib/Term/Screen.pm line 227 It stubbornly remains hooked to its Unix roots, and apparently has no way to run in an MS-DOS window under WinXP. Can't get Term::Cap to work either (although it's horrible, really). Guess Turbo Pascal spoiled me, lo those many decades ago. Gotoxy(5,5); print("Hello world.") Sigh ... Any suggestions on how to get Term::Screen to work in an MS-DOS window? I have ActiveState's perl installed: This is perl, v5.8.6 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread Toad

In reply to WinXP Cursor Positioning by Anonymous Monk

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