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From: sdalelt@cc.curtin.edu.au
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Subject: Re: disregard previous and read this
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.182610.7638@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 27 Mar 91 10:26:09 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.180021.29636@javelin.es.com>, tpehrson@javelin.es.com (Tim Clinkenpeel) writes:
> i have decided a simple solution to all my problems would be the ability to
> print an escape (chr(27)) to the screen as an escape, not as a "<-" character,
> in turbo 5.0 (or higher).

> Is this possible?

Yes, provided you re-open the console for output, otherwise it goes to BIOS and 
not DOS (and thus ANSI.SYS).

To do this, you need to:

var
  f : text;

begin
  assign(f,'')
  rewrite(f);

Thus, to write to DOS, you'd do "writeln(f, ...)" and "writeln(....)" for
BIOS.

Cheers,
Lincoln.
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