Re: Multiple questions on MS-DOS

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 04/06/2007 19:26, L-28C wrote:
> 3) [Example] How do you make command-line progress bars without ANSI? I 
> see many programs using them, however I don't know how they do it... I 
> thought "send multiple backspaces and redraw it", but that would cause 
> flicker wouldn't it?

cURL shows progress of download (stats) by sending a single \r to 
output. This tells to put the cursor at the start of the same line, so 
you can overwrite the previous data.

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