Re: write to same line on standard out?

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:
> AFAIK, MacOS applicatons used \r was as a paragraph separator in text
> files; not as a newline.  it doesn't have anything to do with the OS
> itself; especially since there wasn't any terminal back then.

Could be. I've donated my ancient Manx C compiler to a museum and I 
don't have Apple's development environment installed on the Mac 68K 
emulator (both had a Unix-like console), so I can't check.

On the other hand, I *should* have checked on OS X before posting nonsense.

  Enrico