Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/10:31:20
On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Ian 'DrDebug' Day wrote:
> Nah, because COMMAND.COM is still using interupts to write with, which
> goes *through* the BIOS, which can itself be redirected. If you're
> lucky you have it mapped so it's a little quicker, but if COMMAND.COM
> just wrote DIRECTLY to the screen it would be phenominal.
Agreed.
> Also, I'd suggest an ANSI that is built into COMMAND.COM, what do you
> all think to that? Of course, it would be an OPTION!
NO!!!! What use is ANSI.SYS nowadays anyways?
I'm not asking this to get flamed, just because I know of no uses for
it anymore. I used to use it to switch to 50 line mode, and use color
in batch files, and a few other things. Now I use a 17 byte non-tsr
program which I've written to switch to 50 line mode, I use 4DOS for
color in batch files, and to redefine the keyboard safely, and I use
special viewers to view ANSI files. As for using DOS via a serial
port (which used to be the other reason I needed ANSI.SYS) I now use
DOS over serial/modem via DOSemu with no ANSI.SYS. What use does
ANSI.SYS really have anymore? I'm not suggesting in any way to get
rid of it either, just asking because I don't know.
Also, as for it being a builtin option, I hope that you mean a COMPILE
time option :o)
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