From: "Graham Reeds" <grahamr AT dtn DOT ntl DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Buffering text...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans-Bernhard Broeker" <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: Buffering text...

> For that purpose, you'ld be better off using some tools, like 'redir',
> RHIDE or Emacs. You won't be limited to any particular amount of
> compiler errors, then. You can deal with 500 lines of errors as easily
> as with 5.

Well I use a combo of TextPad and a DOS-box - it's the closest thing I can
get to NEdit and Console without getting myself an O2 and IRIX!-)

> Even then, clrscr() is a waste of time by a factor of 4 or so. At 50%
> of content having to be replaced, clrscr() plus re-write of the whole
> stuff causes 4 times the amount of characters to be written to screen
> as would be truly necessary.

Is there a way of repositioning the write position to the individual lines
on the screen without disturbing the rest of the text? That would take out
the clrscr() which was what I was using for the repositioning of the text
marker.

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