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From: pfratar@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Paul Frattaroli - DCS)
Subject: Re: NNANSI.SYS
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.140414.4061@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Keywords: problems with reversed video in mixed display
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <266@dogear.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 90 14:04:14 GMT
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In article <266@dogear.UUCP> root@dogear.UUCP (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
>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:
>
[stuff deleted]

I had a problem with nnansi also. (An older version, I haven't tried
the new one yet).  When I was using a PD version of MORE as well.  If
I tried to "more" a manpage that I had produced with nroff, none of
the cursor control (for bolding and underlining) was interpreted.
It was interpreted using standard DOS more though.

This was fixed when I started using nansi.

Something else I have noticed with all versions of nansi, nnansi, ansi
and zansi is that there seems to be a problem when using a vi clone.
When I use "dw" to delete the word at the end of a line, the next line
is automatically "Joined".  This happens both with Elvis and Stevie so
I think it is a problem with XXansi.

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

....Paul

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