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From: seaburg@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: ANSI.SYS & emulation
Message-ID: <24700099@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 19:27:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 19:27:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcs!seaburg    Jan 29 18:27:00 1985

I've successfully (I think) modified PC-Talk III to use the ANSI.SYS
driver , thanks to a tip from johnston@uiucdcsb:

	"PCTALK III is written in BASIC and uses BASIC's primitive
I/O which does not utilize CON:.  Therefore, the ANSI.SYS driver is
not involved.  You could fix this by modifying PCTALK III.  First,
you have to open CON: for output (as a file).  Then, change all PRINTS
statements which take characters from the ASYNC input buffer and
print to the screen so that they print to the file CON:.
	You still have to find a termcap for the ANSI.SYS driver."

Well, ...



"Here is the termcap entry I use when running Lotus Symphony.  The major
difference between ANSI.SYS and true ANSI is that some escape sequence
parameters default to 0 when omitten in true ANSI, but are required by
ANSI.SYS.  (Specifically, end standout {se} and end underline {ue}.)  You
can use a standard ansi/ANSI terminal type (if your termcap has it) if
you don't mind staying in reverse video or underline mode constantly
once you enter one or the other.

Ip|ibmpc|IBM PC using ANSI driver:\
	:am:bs:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[1;1H\E[2J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:li#24:\
	:do=\E[B:up=\E[A:nd=\E[C:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:ku=\E[A:\
	:se=\E[0m:so=\E[7m:ue=\E[0m:us=\E[4m:

Ted Hopp	{seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!hopp"



It works great.  Thanks everyone.