[Coco] Os9 Intercept

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 30 October 2012 11:50:54 Bill Pierce did opine:

> Gene, the only problem with "puts" is it automatically adds a CR. This
> is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I have text lines I want to hang
> right were they are with no CR making the screen scroll. Good example
> is a status area at the bottom of the screen using only 2 lines for the
> CWArea. Using puts, anything I write to the 2nd line, scrolls the 1st
> line off the screen.
> 
> Bill P

That sounds like a problem, because the cr is treated as the implicit 
FFlush signal IIRC. About the only way I can think of at this late date is 
the "echo -n text" but I'd think in a C program that would be described as 
clumsy, and that is being kind.

Since you control the length of the string using puts, what happens if you 
declude the cr when setting how much it writes?  OTOH, I haven't carved any 
C since I put PF out to pasture when the ribbon supply for my big xerox DWP 
went dry. Circa 15 or more years back up the log.  To say my wet ram is 
rusty is being kind. :(

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