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Subject: Re: ansi escape sequences
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.002048.27263@news.iastate.edu>
From: tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Adam Goldberg)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 00:20:48 GMT
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In article <DAVIS.91Mar25000822@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>, davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") writes:
>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. 
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
>  bitnet: davis@ohstpy
>internet: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu

There is no 'Simple Driver' to interpret the escape sequence.  Perhaps ANSI.SYS
could be optimized a little, but the very format of ANSI screen commands makes
an interpreter for those commands very difficult.


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