Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!toma From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: nnansi problems Message-ID: <5385@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Date: 19 Jun 89 17:19:41 GMT References: Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) Distribution: comp Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 25 In article wwc@boole.ece.wisc.edu (William W. Carlson) writes: > >Well, I have a bug, even after setting the "nice" option. It is >demonstrated by procomm plus, but I'd bet it shows up elswhere. To >repeat, set the nice option, recompile, reboot, go into procomm plus, >and type exit (Alt-X). Notice that the lines surrounding the box >asking you to exit are not quite right. The vertical lines are made >of the wrong characters! Any Ideas? This is on an AT clone with an >EGA display I don't have Procomm+ to check, but it could be caused by the option takeBIOS being TRUE. In this case, nnansi processes BIOS calls to write characters (and processes ANSI escape sequences). If Procomm+ is writing to the screen using the BIOS call, but expects the ESC character to print as what-ever IBM special character is a 27, then things will be messed up! Not that if you turn takeBIOS off, as well as turning off fast, you will also have to turn off the graphic cursor simulator, since it will not work properly in these conditions. The whole subject of display driver software is a real can of worms... Tom Almy toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com I wrote it (from nansi.sys)