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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Detecting the presence of ANSI.SYS
Message-ID: <640@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 15:14:32 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.640
Posted: Mon Jan 27 15:14:32 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jan-86 05:11:35 EST
References: <131@suneast.uucp> <2135@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen)
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Summary: 

In article <2135@phri.UUCP> greenber@phri.UUCP (Ross Greenberg) writes:
>> Does anyone know of a quick and reliable way of detecting
>> whether ANSI.SYS has been installed? 
>> -- 
>
>A quick hack:
>	Send the ANSI sequence to position your cursor to some location
>	{x,y}.
>
>	Send the ANSI sequence to read current cursor poition.  If
>	they match, you're running ANSI, else you're not.
>
>ross m. greenberg
>ihnp4!allegra!phri!greenber


If you just read cursor position you will get:
	a) the current position if ANSI.SYS
	b) nothing is not ANSI.SYS
Please explain why the cursor needs to be positioned (I may be missing
something here).
-- 
	-bill davidsen

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