Simple text user interface question

[Vlad Dumitrescu XX (LN/EAB)]

> Hm, well, for cursor positioning in general that may be true, and I'm
> sure there are *some* systems it would not work on, but for anything
> that faithfully displays the text it receives doing exactly the
> "something like" above works just fine - no ANSI support needed. I.e.
> try this with e.g. l(1,10):

Good point! The trouble is that under Windows this works only in a text shell - not in werl.exe, and not in a shell opened in Emacs.

/Vlad