George S Pereira wrote:
>         If I print something on screen, How Do I go put the cursor back to
> where I printed and change what I printed to something else.
> 
>         I'll illustrate further.
> 
>         I wanted to create the spinning wheel with ('\','/','-' and '|')
> but I don't know how to change the character after printing it on screen.

If the easy answer will do, the easy answer is to print a
backspace character ("\b") between each, backing over the prior
character just before replacing it. Otherwise, you'll have to
start playing around with terminal control sequences and termcap
stuff.

Christian

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