terminal or cursor control

[E. Joshua Rigler]

Is it possible in Octave to rewrite a line without sending a newline? 
In otherwords, I want to send the values from a timer to stdout, but I
don't want the whole screen to scroll.  I just want the bottom line to
reprint over and over with the updated values of my timer/counter
variable.

I hope there might be a simple way to return to the beginning of the
line, but I would be satisfied if I could simply print backspace
characters or something similar.

-EJR



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