Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/12:35:39
In article <Pine DOT LNX DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970202101111 DOT 5878b-100000 AT capslock DOT com>,
mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca writes
>> 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.
Well, for example, there's a lot of people out there that still use BBSs
(in fact, we still run one) and they depend on ANSI for colour display.
And how would you do a luverly multi coloured prompt that sits in the
top right of the screen without ANSI? ;-)
>Also, as for it being a builtin option, I hope that you mean a COMPILE
>time option :o)
Of course! ;-)
DrDebug
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