Re: Clearscreen - ANSI don't work in NT/2000

[Michal Nowak <vinnie@inetia.pl>]

On 01-12-26 at 15:56 Michael Bode wrote:

>"Liddle Feesh" <no_see_reply_address@spam.com> writes:
>
>> Unfortunately, I'm still having problems getting the ANSI solution to
>work.
>> I am running Windows 2000, and I know that the ANSI.SYS drivers must be
>> loaded to function properly.
>
>Forget ANSI with NT. Microsoft is not compatible to any standard in the
>world.
>
>> Any ideas?
>
>You need to use the Windows NT console API. I've had the same problem
>and found a package from Jerry van Dijk(*) which implements screen
>positioning functions. I also modified the ANSI terminal emulator
>packages by Michael Feldman(**) to work with the Console API package. So
>you can write programms that are portable from NT to OSses which have
>ANSI by simply recompiling them with a different package.
>
>I would mail you the whole stuff, if you get yourself a real email address.
>
>(*) I don't remember the URL where I found that

http://home.trouwweb.nl/Jerry/packages.html#CONSOLE

Mike
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