ArqTel

Program of graduation level

I wrote this program to draw freely on the text screen. Once the page is finished the program would write the screen layout in an output file. This was useful in several circumstances. One of these was during the development of COBOL programs. There was a section in a COBOL program where there has to be page layouts and mask to insert input and output fields. The file generated by the application made it easy to create this section. When an user executes this problem the user place the cursor at any place within the screen using the arrows, the key INS can be used to insert characters, the key DEL to remove a character and the key Scroll to move the whole screen to any side using the arrows. To generate the output file it is necessary to click ESC and to answer S to the confirmation question.

Picture: Selection of characters to be inserted on the page.