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From: blanier@mips.COM (Brian Lanier)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: VI for DOS
Keywords: dos,vi,clones,nansi
Message-ID: <26563@abbott.mips.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 89 01:29:50 GMT
References: <1079@neptune.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: blanier@mips.COM (Brian Lanier)
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Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1079@neptune.AMD.COM> kevin@neptune.AMD.COM (Kevin Tomasek) writes:
>Also,  What is a nansi.sys
	
	nansi/sys is a screen drive which is a superset of ansi.sys.
	I seem to recall that it allows cursor positioning, extend screen
	erasing, etc.  It is installed just like ansi.sys, in the config.sys
	file in a like like "device=nansi.sys"  I am not sure if it is Public
	Domain or not.

>	What is a TSR

	TSR is a maker of fantasy adventure games :-)  

	TSR stands for terminate and stay resident.  Which is a type of program
	which loads itself, latches onto some method of reawakening (such as
	the timer of the keyboard interrupt) and then calls a special exit
	routine which does not reasslocate its memory back to the free memory
	pool.  These are also called memory resident programs.

>	What is a curses/pccurses/....

	cyrses is a set of routines, contained in a library which allow ascii
	terminals w/ screen control routines to partition the display into
	windows.  These windows are then easily controllable.  This approach
	allows for neat looking screen control (games, full screen editors,
	etc. )  ehile still offering device independence.

>Sorry if this is a menial question.

Sorry if this is a set of bad answers :-)

Brian Lanier
blanier@mips.com
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