From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2009-05-17T07:10:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Console output

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Colin Bartlett:

> Assuming I understand correctly what you want to do,
> on a Windows system to show progress in a "console" box
> I just repeatedly use (every second):
>   print 13.chr + "text to show progress"

Now that I think about the Original Poster=E2=80=99s prolem, I think
the solution needs to walk up and down the screen as well. :|

> I hope it would also work in Linux.

FWIW, your below code does run under Linux. :)

> puts
> puts 'simple (Windows) example to show putting text on same console line'
> k =3D 13
> k.times do | n |
>   txt =3D 'count=3D ' + n.to_s
>   print 13.chr + txt  ## CR =3D CarriageReturn
>   sleep 0.5
> end
> puts '  *** final new line'
> puts

=E2=80=94 Shot
--=20
elsif presley [kodz]

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