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Kevin Bracey wrote:

> In message <20010327015715.20720.00001010@ng-fy1.aol.com>
>           mfischer5@aol.com (MFischer5) wrote:
> > I seem to recall this being brought up a time or two, but can't seem to put my
> > finger on the reference...
> > Is it possible to obliterate the command the user types?
> Not in version 5 files. Pressing return at the end of input will make the
> interpreter print a new line; the only way for you to move the cursor back up
> in the lower window is to clear it.

Potentially stupid question:  Can it be done by messing with the two windows?  For
example, resizing one window, then resizing it again?  I'm trying to sift through
the Z-Machine spec to see if text "pushed off" the screen is annihilated, but can't
seem to see one way or another.  Which probably means it isn't a defined concept.


> An alternative for version 5 would be to take all input in the upper window;
> kind of an inverse Beyond Zork.
>
Or take input in the lower window (which might only be two characters tall) and put
the responses into the upper window.  That would have the appropriate effect, if
it's possible--At two characters tall, the only thing you'd be able to see would be
the current command.


