NAME

    AnsiColor - Control colors and cursor position on ANSI terminal.

DESCRIPTION

   INITIALIZATION:

    init                     Terminal initialization

   MOVES CURSOR FUNCTIONS:

    gotoxy(X,Y)              Moves cursor to line X, column Y

    up_lines(N)              Moves cursor up N lines

    down_lines(N)            Moves cursor down N lines

    forward(N)               Moves cursor forward N spaces

    back(N)                  Moves cursor back N spaces

    report(X,Y)              Reports current cursor line & column

    save_pos                 Saves cursor position for recall later

    restore_pos              Return to saved cursor position

   COLOR CONTROL AND CLEAR FUNCTIONS:

    clear_screen             Clear screen and home cursor.

    clear_line               Clear to end of line.

    screen_mode(N)           Put screen in indicated mode where N is:

                               0 for 40 x 25 black & white
                               1 for 40 x 25 color
                               2 for 80 x 25 b&w
                               3 for 80 x 25 color
                               4 for 320 x 200 color graphics
                               5 for 320 x 200 b & w graphics
                               6 for 640 x 200 b & w graphics
                               7 to wrap at end of line 

    reset_color              Set Black & White color.

    set_color(attr,fg,bg)    Set display attribute and color.

                             Support fg and bg colors:

                             black, red, green, yellow, blue,
                             magenta, syan, white

                             Support attributes:

                             normal, bold, underline, blink,
                             reverse_attr, invisible

EXAMPLE

     use Term::AnsiColor;

     init;
     gotoxy(38,12);
     clear_screen();
     set_color(blink,green,yellow);
     print 'Hello world';
     reset_color;
     gotoxy(0,25);

AUTHOR

     Okunev Igor V.  mailto:igor@prv.mts-nn.ru
                     http://www.mts-nn.ru/~gosha

REVISION

    $Id: Read_me.txt,v 1.2 2002/09/29 22:08:05 gosha Exp $