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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Looking for VT220/ANSI escape codes
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.113434.307@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 19 Nov 90 09:34:34 GMT
References: <11452.2742bf22@ecs.umass.edu>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <11452.2742bf22@ecs.umass.edu>, ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!) writes:
> Does anyone know where I can get a list of VT220/ANSI escape codes?  I wish
> to split the screen, save/restore the cursor position and other fancy things.
> Thanks....

I couldn't find the complete reference (your best bet is a technical library),
but the portion of VT220 ANSI codes that are used in the DOS environment are
fully explained in the DOS Technical Reference Manual.  You can also take a
look at some files available on Simtel20:
PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN>
   ANSI-ESC.DOC   Reference for ANSI escape sequences
   NANSI.TCP      Unix termcap for NANSI.SYS
   NNANSI.*       [New new ANSI.SYS - more codes are defined]
   [...]
PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTIL>
   ANSI-SYS.ARC   Tutorial on use of ANSI codes
   [...]

The `save/restore cursor' sequence is part of DOS' standard ANSI, NNANSI also
has some features like `delete end of screen' and `insert line', but I'm not
shure about `scroll up'.

Hope this helps some

Markus Fischer, Dpt of Anthropology, Geneva.