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From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva AT bgnett DOT no>
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Subject: Re: Using ANSI escape sequences with DJGPP
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:55:28 +0200
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"Cesar Rabak" <crabak AT acm DOT org> said:

> When run from a cmd window, the DJGPP version clears the screen, whereas 
> the windows console version not.
> 
> I looked for this information in the FAQ and could not find anything about.
> 
> My theory is that in some way, the runtime for DJGPP manages to create a 
> more 'DOS' environment (calling command.com which will load ANSI.NT).

What's ANSI.NT? Or do you mean djgpp programs causes CONFIG.NT
drivers/settings to be used. So if you have an ansi.sys driver there,
it should clear the screen. Nothing new about that. 

But MingW uses the WinCon API which doesn't grok ANSI w/o a 
special device-driver.

--gv