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From: Alan Illeman <illeman AT interlog DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Using ANSI.SYS with DJGPP
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 17:25:40 -0500
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N J Chackowsky wrote:
> 
> I'm developing a little unit that uses the ANSI.SYS device driver to do
> color text with cout <<. It works nicely, but I'd like to know if a
> program has the device driver loaded before I attempt to use ANSI escape
> codes. Is there a way to detect if the device driver has been loaded?

Do a search for Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. I think detection of ANSI.SYS
and other drivers is through interrupt 0x2E