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From: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Ansi Color
Message-ID: <7328@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 91 05:35:34 GMT
Reply-To: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1991Apr20.143655.13621@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> Q: How to get ansi control codes working in Turbo Pascal writes?
>Occasionally I have seen it suggested that one should just set
>   DirectVideo := false;
>This is a popular misconception. It won't produce the desired
>result.
>

  Being one of the perpetrators of this hoax, I would like to know
  why this solution doesn't work.  I checked the manual; it says
  that setting the DirectVideo variable false coerces Turbo into
  using Bios for all write/writeln statements.  I assume the Ansi
  driver intercepts the video interrupt for output.  What gives?
  Is Ansi.sys not intercepting the correct vector, or does Turbo
  use a "non standard" output method?

  BTW, the results are the same using Ansi.com, PC Magazine's 
  enhanced ansi driver.

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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.