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    Question cursor movement

    When my program opens in a DOS-prompt, how can I move the cursor vertically? If someone could help me out with this it would be great.

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    go to www.dosprogramming.com and under code is the answer

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    This maybe off the point but I've seen something similar before.

    Do just want to view output from a program that has scrolled off the screen? If so you could pipe it into more like this:

    >ProgramName.exe | more

    Sorry if this is totally of the point

    Brif

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    Originally posted by brif
    This maybe off the point but I've seen something similar before.

    Do just want to view output from a program that has scrolled off the screen? If so you could pipe it into more like this:

    >ProgramName.exe | more

    Sorry if this is totally of the point

    Brif
    Is that linux\unix specific?
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    Originally posted by Gnoober
    Is that linux\unix specific?
    Rather Windows-specific, altough it might exist in unix too.
    Last edited by Sang-drax : Tomorrow at 02:21 AM. Reason: Time travelling

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    I didn't know you could pipe in windows. Thought it was a Unix feature...
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    I'm sure windows command prompt did allow for pipes, perhaps I'm just getting old, however..

    I tested it under XP and it is fine but under Win98 it dosent work :-( Perhaps I have just got a badly configured win98 box?

    Another way to allow you to scroll up in the command prompt on newer versions of windows ( XP and NT I think?) is to right click the command prompt window and change the scrollbar setting in one of the tabs.

    Although this probably wasnt the problem in the first place!

    Brif

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