From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T08:15:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make a cycling counter from commandline?

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Tim Pease wrote:
> That should do you what you want.  The secret is the carriage return
> "\r" at the beginning of the print string. That will bring the cursor
> back to the beginning of the line and then overwrite anything
> currently on that line.
>=20

Smells unportable between Linux, Windows, and Mac Classic. Then again, I
don't know what approach Ruby takes to newline-handling on non-Unix
platforms.

Ah, the good old days of high-school Turbo Pascal, when gotoxy() Just
Worked (tm). Nary a control character or escape sequence in sight.

David Vallner


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