Re: Ansi.sys

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Here is a "trick" that will work to process ANSI terminal sequences
to provide a correct display on Windows NT, 2000 and XP.

1.  Install the cygwin dll and tools found at
http://www.cygwin.com/

2.  Run your program in the cygwin shell, or another Unix shell
compatible with Windows NT, 2000 and XP (I prefer tcsh).

3. Pipe your programs output through the cygwin "tee" tool -- e.g.:

diners | tee

The "tee" tool sends its standard input to the standard output,
and if a filename argument is supplied to tee, also to the
specified file.

The "tee" standard output processes ANSI escape sequences and
provides the appropriate display.

I suppose someone who had the time could merge the source code
for the shell and the "tee" tool to produce an ANSI compliant
shell terminal.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Gari�py" <rgariepy@rocler.qc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: March 09, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Ansi.sys


> You are out of luck. I never found an ansi.sys that work with
> Windows 2000.
>
> You will have to write to Bill Gates and/or ask for a refund.
>
> Roger Gari�py                  :-)   <-   :-(
> rgariepy@rocler.qc.ca
>
> ------------------------------
>
> "S�bastien Bourgogne" <sbourgo@noos.fr> a �crit dans le message de
> news: 3e6b4190$0$2873$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-02.noos.net...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I work with Ada95 ( but the compilation is made with Ada83), and
> Windows
> > 2000.
> > I use ansi caracter but when i see my exe file, i don't see the
> good
> > result!!
> > I can see the ansi caracters!!!
> >
> > I have already change my config.nt. I've added this instructions :
> > device=%systemroot%\system32\ansi.sys
> > but there are no result!! :-(
> >
> > How can i do proceed ?
> >
> > thanks a lot!!
> >
> >
>
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