Command Line/Console Mode Menu's and ASCII-Graphics

Dear Sun java friends:
Pardon me if this has been asked. I have used the search function but have been unable to find useful information.
I am developing a series of programs to parse servers logs and compute certain statistics. There will also be a real-time monitor of active connections. This would be an extrodinarily simple task with swing and awt, but i am limited to the console mode only. In my quest for neatness (i do not want a continious screen scroll of active connets/disconnects with System.out), i am looking for a way to create simple ASCII-like graphics, not much unlike the TSR's from the old DOS days.
Obviously, System.out.println() does not give me the power i need. I would like to be able to print text/characters at a certain x,y coordinate. Is it even possible with Java? Where can i look for tutorials or get more information?

There is no standard package in Java for console graphics but a number of third party packages exist. For example the ncurses library has been ported to Java, do a web search on "java curses." IIRC it's open source but I've never used it..

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