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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: What is Ansi.sys??
Message-ID: <1990Dec29.001119.23278@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 29 Dec 90 00:11:19 GMT
References: <8069.2770a6a0@jetson.uh.edu> <1990Dec22.190906.6442@xrtll.uucp> <1990Dec26.131046.1236@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <1990Dec27.025815.19617@xrtll.uucp> <1990Dec27.181717.6231@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Not around here, pal!
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In article <1990Dec27.181717.6231@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) writes:
$Well, I'm definately not saying that they are the most advanced technically,
$but I wouldn't call them not terribly useful either.

   I didn't either.

$>   Those are handled by the user's comm software rather than by ansi.sys.
$Hmmm, I don't know if that's true for all packages. I had a few calls from
$people wondering why they had all these funny arrows on their screen.

   You're probably right, though it's also possible that they were using
another terminal emulation.

$I notice you didn't mention the third item at all. I assume that you are familiar
$with programs that run on different platforms? 

   Yup.  I've actually met one.  They're not terribly common, either.
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