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And if you switch the tty from "cooked" to "raw" mode then it doesn't do the conversion, and a CR just moves the cursor back to the start of the line and a LF j
by poizan42 5mo ago
And if you switch the tty from "cooked" to "raw" mode then it doesn't do the conversion, and a CR just moves the cursor back to the start of the line and a LF just moves the cursor one line down.
- fragmede 5mo agoWhich is how you do the fun spinny icons on the command line without having to invoke ncurses!
- freedomben 5mo agoYou can also just use a \r directly without a \n. For example: spin='/-\|' while true; do i=$(( (i+1) % 4 )) printf "\r${spin:$i:1} Working..." sleep 0.1 done
- freedomben 5mo agoBy the way yes, that is a subtle reference to the TOS computer, so it's best read in that voice :-)