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From: SKULIKOW%UWF.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( stan kulikowski ii)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: detect ANSI.SYS replacement
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Date: 2 Aug 90 00:31:48 GMT
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  i write programs with user interfaces that employ the ANSI.SYS device
driver.  inevitably i give a program to a colleague whose system has some
other device driver installed, so my programs look like garbage on his
monitor.  i have tried to explain to him how to look in his config.sys but
this task is beyond his computer useage.

   my programs need to determine which device driver is in the environment to
control the monitor... if it isn't ANSI.SYS, then remove it, install ANSI.SYS
so my code can do its thing, then reinstall the previous driver before
program termination.

  i have been poking around simtel20 <msdos.screen> without success, looking
for some demo source code which can help.  can anyone send me some?  TP 5.5
preferred, C (turbo or zortech) acceptable.
                                           stan

   .                      skulikow@UWF.bitnet
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