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From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: ObjectAda and ANSI.SYS
Date: 1998/06/18
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Organization: * JerryWare *, Leiden, Holland
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1998-06-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Hans Marqvardsen (hm@ddre.dk) wrote:

: When I open a DOS window, and use the MEM /P command, the output
: confirms that ANSI.SYS is in fact installed;
: 	Name:ANSI, SIZE:1060, Type:DEVICE=

: However, 
: when I run Feldmans SMILEY procedure, 
: the output merely lists the escape sequenses
: without interpretation. 

Adding the ansi.sys driver will enable usage of ansi escape
sequences for DOS programs. MS does not support the use of
ansi for console based windows programs.

I modified Mike Feldmans SCREEN package to run on a Win32
system, you can find it on my homepage:

http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk

Success,
Jerry.

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-- Jerry van Dijk  | email: jdijk@acm.org
-- Leiden, Holland | member Team-Ada