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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:14:32 -0700
From: Neal <lbneal AT pysmatic DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DXR-DOS 7.03 CON: Codepage Switching Problem
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Paul -

Consider ANSI.COM it is super fast and may support your needs:

  http://dosonly.net/videou.htm

Neal
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Paul O. Bartlett wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Paul O. Bartlett wrote:
> 
> >     I am still setting up DR-DOS 7.03, but here is a problem I cannot
> > find addressed in the DOSBOOK.
> >
> >     I sometimes want to use extended characters for languages other
> > than English, in particular the ISO-8859-1/Latin-1 and ISO-8859-3/Latin-3
> > character sets.  [...]   However, I am having problems with the MODE
> > command under DR-DOS 7.03 to set things up.
> > [cut]
> 
>     I spoke too soon.  After I had made this post, just on a sudden
> hunch I decided to try one more thing before I quit for the evening.
> It turns out that a replacement driver I was using was at fault.
> 
>     Back when I used MS-DOS 5, I loaded NANSI.SYS 3.3, which was a
> replacement for (MS) ANSI.SYS.  It was supposedly faster than ANSI.SYS,
> and it had a load option to disallow keyboard redefinition by ANSI
> escape sequences, thus closing up a security hole.  So I just brought
> it over.  But when I loaded C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS instead of the old
> NANSI.SYS, my problems with the MODE command went away.
> 
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