Repeating screen print

[BAKERWL at UWYO.EDU]

In r.le I have the program print to stdout a message indicating 
how the tracing of patches is proceeding.  The message is supposed to
reprint on top of the previous message so it ticks off the patch numbers
as they are traced.  But occasionally it gets off kilter and then fills
the screen with messages rather than putting them one on top of each
other.  Anyone know a better way to do this?  Here's the code as it
is now:

	fprintf(stdout,"Tracing patch %7d\b\b...21 of these...\b",tot);
	fflush(stdout);

Apparently, every so often the flush messes up or maybe the backspace...
Ideas?

	Bill Baker
	bakerwl at uwyo.edu