in reply to printing characters to specific position on screen

On unix, Curses will do that.

Often, you can print "\r" to return to the start of the line and overprint the current data with a whole new line.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re^2: printing characters to specific position on screen
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 08, 2005 at 20:54 UTC
    hmm, in win2k, \r prints an undistinguishable character and wraps to the next line....and \b doesnt even print.