Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!gargoyle!infopls!system From: system@infopls.UUCP (SYSOP) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: NNANSI.SYS Keywords: problems with reversed video in mixed display Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 90 23:17:48 GMT References: <1990Dec12.080228.18107@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL Lines: 34 mjf@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Michael J Flory) writes: > > Though I'm the last one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I had some > problems with NNANSI too (also using Video 7 equipment -- I've got the > VGA208E from Headlands Technology, that's Video 7, isn't it?)... I found > that if I shelled out of a program to go to MG Emacs, as I recall, NNANSI > seemed to lose track of the place I'd left to go to the shell. I'd come > back to the program I'd shelled out of, to find that its screen was half > scrolled off the top. I have no such problem with ANSI.SYS. NNANSI also > seemed to put blinking blocks before and after the echo'd lines during my > autoexec, but I didn't try to track that down -- I packed it in after the > shell problems appeared. I didn't try NNANSI with a bare system (all drivers > removed, etc.) -- there may be some incompatibility there as well. > > -- Michael Flory (mjf@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu) Please, double, triple, quadruple check the documentation. NNANSI gets super-fast scrolling by resetting the screen buffer, rather than copying the data. If you have programs that don't like this, there is a small .BAT file called SLOW.BAT that came with NNANS890.ZIP. This will shut off the fast-scrolling if you have the 8/90 version of NNANSI. BTW, it would be nice if the author would include a version that had the fast-scrolling, and the take-BIOS, turned off. The first thing I did when I got my copy was to re-assemble the program with them OFF. If anyone's intersted, I can send you a copy of the new .SYS file, if you wish. Let me know what type of video chipset you have [Infoplus 1.41 is a good way to find out!! :-)] and I'll send you one setup for it so you don't have problems with large blocks if you use 132 column modes. (Try using GCOFF.BAT, to see if that helps, BTW.) --------------- Andrew Rossmann andyross@infopls.UUCP or ..!uunet!ddsw1!infopls!system Infoplus Support BBS +1 708 537 0247, 1200/2400, 24 hours