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From: aruit@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (A. de Ruiter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Check if ANSI.SYS driver is loaded.
Keywords: ANSI.SYS
Message-ID: <622@ssp16.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 16 Nov 89 09:07:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: ssp16.622
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
Lines: 21

Is there anybody out there who knows how you can check from out a user program
if the ANSI.SYS driver is loaded.  In a c/assembler program I frequently use
several ANSI escape sequences to write certain information to the display.  In
case the ANSI.SYS driver of MS-DOS is not loaded from config.sys, the output
on the display looks terrible.  Now I want to check in the beginning of my
program if the ANSI.SYS driver is running or not.  In that way I can give an
error message to inform the user to load the driver first before restarting the
program.

Please if you have suggestions and/or c/assemble sources send them to me.
I use MSC5.1, MASM5.1 and CTOOLS+5.0 for the development of this program.

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