Re: Can fortran clear the 3270 screen?

When I played it at UW-Whitewater summer 1978, I just scrolled back
the paper coming out of the teletype terminal hooked up to a HP mini.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Ron Hudson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am not. Yes, lets.
>
>  Let's  minimize the pain. :-)
>
> Ok, here's the reason I want to do this.. Perhaps there is another way around.
>
> At regular intervals my STREK program prints out the current situation:
>
> ----- show in fixed width font----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> S-TREK                                 STATUS:GREEN
> ENTERPRISE LOCATION (6.1,7.5)
>   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 %%   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8
> ----------------- --  --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
> 1 . . . . . . . .|99| 888 888 888 888 999 888 888 888
> 2 . . . . . . . .|99| 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888
> 3 . . . . . . . .|99| 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888
> 4 . . . . . . . *|99| 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888
> 5 + . . . . . . .|99| 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888
> 6 . . . . . . . .|99| 888 888 888 888 120 200 431 888
> 7 . . . * . . . .|99| 888 888 888 888  10 200  20 888
> 8 . . . . . . . .|99| 888 888 888 888 300 210  20 888
> ----------------- --  --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
>   DAYS:  655    BASES:   13 TORPEDOES:   10
> ENERGY: 3000 KLINGONS:   95
> COMMAND  CXX C:?,Q,W,I,P,T
>
> But sometimes this gets broken by the end of page mark "***" and that leave
> the player with only a portion of the information they need to select and implement
> their next command.
>
> Oh, I just got an Idea.. If the situation display is on the screen-break just hit enter
> and get a new one without the loss of a day or the Klingons getting a turn...
> perhaps that will work.
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Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?