Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/03/00:51:44
i agree with the ansi.sys inclusion because i use it in making the menu i
use... it is just a simple single use which i would love to avoid with a
non-tsr program. btw, if anyone knows where i can get my hands on a
program which will display an ansi without having to load into memory,
please tell me!!! : )
On Sun, 2 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
> 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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