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From: al@condor.UUCP (Al Gudaitis)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: question about ansi.sys and ega
Message-ID: <1269@condor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 23:23:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: condor.1269
Posted: Tue Jun 17 23:23:27 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jun-86 05:39:44 EDT
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Bolton, Mass.
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I hope someone can explain why my AT (which has an EGA card) hangs up when I
send an escape sequence to the terminal device.  If I create a file with the
following sequence of characters "ESC [ 2 J" (the ANSI clear-screen code) and
issue the command, "TYPE filename" where filename contains the above escape
sequence, the computer clears the screen, does not print a new prompt, and
ceases to respond to any commands on the keyboard.  In fact, continued typing
on the keyboard eventually produces a beeping, obviously signifying that a
keyboard buffer is full.  The config.sys file does set device=ansi.sys but
maybe I should be setting it equal to some other thing for EGA cards?  I hope
somebody can explain and solve my problem (I can't run microemacs this way).

			HELP,

				Al Gudaitis