Re: simple question: frame shutter esc.sequence for vt100/X-term?

In article <341...@na.chalmers.se>, Johannes Schoon
<sch...@na.chalmers.se> writes
>I'd like to enhance the code so that it
>erases the screen + puts the cursor at the "home" position in
>before dumping the next picture.
I don't know if it will be the same for you on a unix system
but on Dos, to put the cursor to the "home" position you can
use the ansi escape sequence:
        escape left_square_bracket semi_colon capital_H
ascii codes (in decimal): 027 091 059 072
[note for Dos ppl: you need to have ansi.sys loaded to do this]

Then you can just overwrite the last frame, as long as you write
the same number of lines and chars per line.

>Also, such an escape 
>sequence enhanced output will be possible to pipe into a file, which
>can be saved for later viewing (cat'ing) on the screen.
The problem with this is that you can't control the speed of
playback (AFAIK). When I tried it I couldn't see anything except
the last frame because it was too fast.

I think you would be better off saving the plain output and 
converting it to html/javascript like the animations in this ng.
Kangaroo, who posts here, has written a program to convert from
plain text to the html/javascript format. You'll find a link to
it at http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/4942

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