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From: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis")
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: ansi escape sequences
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Date: 25 Mar 91 05:08:22 GMT
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Reply-To: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu  (John E. Davis)
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Hi,

   What is the easiest way to send ansi escape sequences to the screen without
having ansi.sys loaded?  I imagine that there should be a simple driver
program that would interpret the escape sequence and write directly to the
screen.   Can this be done in a `graphics card' independent way if this needs
to be done only with ordinary ascii text files?

   The reason I want to know is that I wrote a paging program for unix/vms
that utilizes ansi escape sequences.  I want to port it to DOS but I do not
want to rewrite the io routines.

Thanks,

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John

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