Screen Formatting with xy

The xy command is a tool to help you design your own custom screens in script files. xy can be used to either position the cursor or execute a screen-formatting command. Used in combination with the terse command, colon commands, peek command, and show command, you can control what is displayed on the screen while a script file executes.

To position the cursor, use xy in this format:
 

xy row,col

where row and col are the row and column where you'd like to place the cursor.

To execute a screen-formatting command, use xy in this format:
 

xy=number
or
xy -number,number

See Appendix B of the Autolog User's Guide for the numbers that correspond to screen-formatting commands. For example, to perform the "clear the screen" function (-1,0), you could enter:
 

xy=0
or
xy -1,0

xy can execute any screen formatting commands that your monitor or terminal supports and for which a code number is given.