How to clear screen in Gforth Dos
Leland Williams
windows 95, but the supplied word for 'page' which is supposed to
clear the screen only mangaes to put garbage on the screen. I think it
an other screen commands use the 'ESC[' word which emits a esc
sequence, but it only puts garbatge on the screen.
Can anyone suggest an alternate definition for page and at-xy ?
Anton Ertl
lwil...@jpusa.org (Leland Williams) writes:
>I am using the dos executable of Gforth-0.4.0 in a Ms-DOS window in
>windows 95, but the supplied word for 'page' which is supposed to
>clear the screen only mangaes to put garbage on the screen. I think it
>an other screen commands use the 'ESC[' word which emits a esc
>sequence, but it only puts garbatge on the screen.
AFAIK you need to put ANSI.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS for the escape
sequences to work.
- anton
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Joel Rubin
Ertl) wrote:
>In article <588e78af.02021...@posting.google.com>,
> lwil...@jpusa.org (Leland Williams) writes:
>>I am using the dos executable of Gforth-0.4.0 in a Ms-DOS window in
>>windows 95, but the supplied word for 'page' which is supposed to
>>clear the screen only mangaes to put garbage on the screen. I think it
>>an other screen commands use the 'ESC[' word which emits a esc
>>sequence, but it only puts garbatge on the screen.
>
>AFAIK you need to put ANSI.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS for the escape
>sequences to work.
>
Of course, the trouble is that few people in 2002 have ANSI.SYS
installed.
Try
MOV AH,0FH
INT 10h
XOR AH,AH
INT 10h
The first int 10h gets the current video mode in AL; the second one
sets the current video mode to the one in AL.
If you know in advance that the video mode is 3 (80x25 color), you can
just:
mov ax,3
int 10h
Marcel Hendrix
Joel Rubin wrote:
[ clear screen without using ANSI.SYS ]
> MOV AH,0FH
> INT 10h
Learning something new everyday. You mean, Gforth 0.5.0 runs in 16-bit mode
on DOS? Even if it comes with a DOS extender (GO32?) I'd have expected this
to cause trouble.
-marcel
Leland Williams
Leland
Leland Williams
downloaded the 0.4.0 dos executable-only package, since it fit on a
floppy, and have been using it in a MS-Dos window in Windoze. It does
have a 32-bit cell size, but I don't know if it is running in 16-bit
mode or not since, again, I haven't tried it in pure DOS.
m...@iaehv.iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) wrote in message news:<hwzc8.2457$Yf1....@typhoon.bart.nl>...
Leland Williams
colon definition? I have never gotten around to using CODE yet and am
not sure if I am supposed to enter mnemonics or Hex Codes.
Thanks again for your attention.
Leland Williams
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Gary Chanson
"Leland Williams" <lwil...@jpusa.org> wrote in message
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Assuming that GForth is a simple Win32 console program, all you need to
do is load an ANSI console drive (either in the DOS box before launching
GForth or in AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS).
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Gary Chanson
"Marcel Hendrix" <m...@iaehv.iae.nl> wrote in message
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This code is the same in either 16 bit or 32 bit segments. If it is in
a 32 bit segment, the assembler has to add override opcodes to force 16 bit
processing. Regardless, the DOS function still takes the same parameters
and the source code looks the same.
Marcel Hendrix
>
> "Leland Williams" <lwil...@jpusa.org> wrote in message
> news:588e78af.02021...@posting.google.com...
> > Can anyone suggest an alternate definition for page and at-xy ?
>
> Assuming that GForth is a simple Win32 console program, all you need to
> do is load an ANSI console drive (either in the DOS box before launching
> GForth or in AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS).
Won't work on NT4 or W2K, unless 'an ANSI console driver' is a recent
development, specifically for these OS's.
-marcel
Leland Williams
an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote in message news:<a4t2f4$f1e$1...@news.tuwien.ac.at>...
Leland Williams
Hey, ansi works! Thanks Anton !
marcel, the computer at work has an out of the box Windows 98 OS, and
it has ANSI.SYS. I don't know how NT$ or W2K work, but see if they
have a Dos Mode option, and put a device= to the file in the
config.sys box.
Jerry Avins
AFAIK: as far as I know. (Read that any way you like.)
Jerry
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