[Tutor] carriage return on windows

[Max Noel]

On Jan 30, 2005, at 02:40, Jacob S. wrote:

> I don't think that's what he wants. I think he wants to *overwrite* 
> what's in the shell with new output.
> For example.
>
>
> so that the whole line is overwritten. In my experience, this is not 
> possible and if anyone can show me how to do it,
> I would be grateful.
>
> HTH,
> Jacob

	It *is* possible, that's exactly what my code does (well, as long as 
you don't run it on Mac OS 9). The carriage return (\r, as opposed to 
the linefeed \n) moves the cursor to the beginning of the *current* 
line.

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