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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: What is Ansi.sys??
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.025815.19617@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 27 Dec 90 02:58:15 GMT
References: <8069.2770a6a0@jetson.uh.edu> <1990Dec22.190906.6442@xrtll.uucp> <1990Dec26.131046.1236@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Not around here, pal!
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In article <1990Dec26.131046.1236@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) writes:
$I'm sorry, I must respond the the "not terribly" useful quote above. In '85 
$I was working in a shop where I used a language called MegaBasic. It
$was very nice (and doesn't work on my current system) and supported 
$1 meg of program and data which no other basic at the time supported 
$(at least on the PC and as far as I knew). It was very fast BUT had absolutly
$no screen control to it. You had to use ANSI.Sys to clear the screen and
$add color to any program along with locate for screen positioning.

   Yes, there are programs that require ansi.sys; I've seen a couple of
vi clones that do.  And some such programs may well be technically
advanced.  But they're still few and far between.

$Also, as a former (can you ever be former) BBS Sysop, I used ANSI escape
$sequences for all my screens. 

   Those are handled by the user's comm software rather than by ansi.sys.

$And, there is still the fancy prompt that awes the occasional user "how
$did you DO that!?!"

   Heck, I put a dollar sign in my prompt (to distinguish it from the usual
COMMAND.COM prompt since I'm using my own homemade substitute) and that's
enough to surprise most people :-)
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