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From: root@dogear.UUCP (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: NNANSI.SYS
Keywords: problems with reversed video in mixed display
Message-ID: <266@dogear.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 90 17:50:16 GMT
Organization: Brand-X Systems of Spokane, WA. USA 99202
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The recently posted NNANSY.SYS set has a couple of problems that I noticed.
I downloaded a previous version of nnansi, and tried it for a while. It had
the speed advertised, but also a very annoying quirk.

The best example is whn using pagers like 'MORE' (the pd version, not DOS) and
foobar's fsuucp or even in a 'fancy prompt'. When a program uses a reversed or
color background which doesn't use the entire screen, the reversed video bar,
or the color background area appears at the top of the screen, while the text
appears on the current screen line. It looks like this:

[ reverse area or color    ]





 - MORE -  23%

instead of 

[ - MORE - 23%             ]

The newly posted version does exactly the same thing.

nnansi.sys is very fast, but, in my opinion, should only be used on mono-
chrome systems which don't support color or reverse(!) video.

By the way, my system is pretty straightforward. It's an 8 mhz NEC with a
video-7 egastar board.

right now, I use the nansi.sys (opposed to nnansi) with no trouble at all.
I can also use the standard ansi.sys and (for that matter) ALL of the other
replacements for ansi.sys, except nnansi.

TO THE AUTHOR: *please* keep trying, nnansi is great except for this problem!

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