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- From: holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Prevent the screen from scrolling?
- Date: 26 Aug 1992 20:00:55 -0500
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- 89612048s@csghsg5a.bitnet writes:
-
- >If I am going to write anything into the last position of the screen
- >(80,25) or of a window, the screen is scrolling on line forward. Is there any
- >possibility to prevent the screen from scrolling? Otherwise you
- >always have to take care that you never write into the last screen-
- >positio.
-
- I've thought about this in the past, and here's what I came up with (but
- haven't coded yet):
-
- Instead of calling Write(), call DirectWrite, a procedure that will copy
- the ASCII value to the screen but not update the cursor position....
-
- That, or there's probably a BIOS interrupt to do somethign similar...
-
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