Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 23:29:55 -0600 (CST)
From: "Paul J. Thompson" <thomppj AT okstate DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist
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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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