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From: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: question about ansi.sys and ega
Message-ID: <324@catnip.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Jun-86 21:07:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: catnip.324
Posted: Sat Jun 28 21:07:31 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jun-86 06:07:42 EDT
References: <1269@condor.UUCP> <737@nicmad.UUCP>
Reply-To: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Organization: The Broder Residence, Holmdel, N.J.  07733
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In article <737@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>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
>>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.

I have never had any problem using ansi.sys with my Quad EGA+, but I
would highly recommend using NANSI.SYS (posted to the net a while back)
instead.  This driver fully supports the EGA, even the 43 line mode.

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Ben Broder
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