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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: What is NANSI.SYS?
Message-ID: <2865@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 13:16:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 16 13:16:44 1986
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
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>I have nansi.sys and like it for its manageable source and its speed.  Is
>fansi-console also available in source form?  Is it public domain or
>inexpensive?  If full ANSI is available in the same good form as nansi.sys,
>it sounds like a deal to me.

FANSI-CONSOLE is distributed by NO SMOKING SOFTWARE.  It is not "freeware",
but the author is happy to have you try a copy for 10 days, and then buy
it if you like it.  You have to obtain your own copy for this deal however.
The distribution disk is not copy protected, and I have seen older versions
of the distribution on bulletin boards.

FANSI-CONSOLE costs $25 dollars - that includes a disk with a truncated
on-line "printable" copy of the manual.  The full manual costs another $25
(Standard IBM binder, pretty thick, mostly useful to programmers).

The manual says something about the source being available for $400000.00
I think that if the author was a usenet junkie, he would have added a :-)

FANSI-CONSOLE is great!  The latest version supports all the EGA modes,
does pretty complete vt100 emulation, and has scads and scads of supported
ANSI sequences.  It's fast, too.  It has all kinds of configuration options
(One example:  if you have a CGA display board that doesn't "hash", you can
speed up display output by not waiting for video retrace - and a program is
included which shows you if your CGA will "hash" or not).