posted 19 years ago
Not really. You can print a bunch of blank lines, or you can call an underlying system call. If you do the latter, you lose platform independence. The former, printing blank lines, is only good for dos-window/console type of output. For a GUI, you have other options that are particular to each component.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for one day. Teach a man to fish, he'll drink all your beer.
Cheers, Jeff (SCJP 1.4 all those years ago...)