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From: richard@calvin.ee.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain - VOS hacker)
Subject: Re: Problem with Elvis 1.4
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 08:17:54 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.081754.789@calvin.ee.cornell.edu>
References: <505@wrdis01.af.mil> <238@esun49.nms.gdc.portal.com>

In article <238@esun49.nms.gdc.portal.com> chadbour@nms.gdc.portal.com (jeffrey chadbourne) writes:
>By the way, Elvis writes to the screen using the BIOS by default. You can set
>the environment variable TERM=ansi or TERM=nansi in order to use ANSI.SYS or
>NANSI.SYS device drivers (depending what you've loaded in config.sys of course :-)

I tried setting TERM=nansi and it ran very much faster on screen redraws, but
I noticed it was also using the console device for input, and that many
of the useful cursor keys were gone (control--> for advance word etc.)  It 
should be possible to get these keycodes from dos without needing the bios
call ?.  It would be nice to have it both ways.


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