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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: question about ansi.sys and ega
Message-ID: <737@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 14:06:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: nicmad.737
Posted: Fri Jun 20 14:06:43 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Jun-86 03:25:12 EDT
References: <1269@condor.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <1269@condor.UUCP> al@condor.UUCP (Al Gudaitis) writes:
>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).

I believe that I read somewhere that ANSI.SYS does not support the EGA card.
Except when in CGA compatable mode, but in EGA mode, nope.

This information doesn't help you, but at least you know why.

Now....if I am wrong, I am sure another netter will set me straight.
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