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From: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: ansi question for turbo 5.0+
Message-ID: <7153@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 91 06:33:05 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.161211.28435@javelin.es.com> <1991Mar21.102223.8284@uwasa.fi>
Reply-To: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1991Mar21.102223.8284@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>
>Your query is a slight misunderstanding of the issue, because this
>is not really a question of Turbo Pascal actively supporting or not
>supporting something.  If you write ansi cursor controls characters
>with the write command, ansi.sys will function in its normal way. 
>(Unless you have instructed direct screen writes by including: Uses
>Crt). 
>

 But don't fear using the CRT unit and maintaining ANSI control, since
 you can set the DirectVideo variable (found in the CRT unit). Of 
 course, you'll pay the penalty in speed, but isn't that what ANSI.SYS
 is all about?  

 BTW, I recommend PC Magazine's Ansi.com, a .COM file replacement for
 ANSI.SYS with more features and faster to boot.

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Bob Beauchaine bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM 

C: The language that combines the power of assembly language with the 
   flexibility of assembly language.