From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T12:37:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make a cycling counter from commandline?

David Vallner [mailto:david@vallner.net] 
# 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.
# 
# 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.

fyi, code posted by TwP runs on linux and windows.

kind regards -botp