From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 11:38:59 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com cc: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" , opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote: > How could the bbs crowd do ansi music once ansi.sys were gone? They wouldn't, but they would cheer loudly. > ansi.sys was the standard all speech synthesizers on dos systems > mastered first and for our community has the widest support. I suppose Use the ANSI.SYS that you have then. If it works, then don't fix it. It's doubtful that any new ANSI.SYS features are coming out soon. > ansi.com could be used in a pinch if my ansi.sys files were gone or > command.com didn't ofer support for it to take care of software > like nswp which manages disks nicely and nethack actually needs something > more than ansi.sys to run since ansi.sys can't redefine function keys Use PCANSI.COM. > in nethack. Generally though screen emulators aren't > normally found in command.com because it would probably have to be > called command.exe before too much longer. 4DOS is 4DOS.COM and it is 170k. (Internally it is an EXE file, however for some reason they've renamed it to a COM file. DOS looks at the first 2 characters of a file before running it though and see's "MZ" so it runs it as an EXE. Strange eh?) Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca URL of the day: http://www.digital.com