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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C - >Graphics, CGA, EGA, et.al.
Message-ID: <4261@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 08:53:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 08:53:06 1987
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In article <661@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> tim@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Tim Takahashi) writes:
> 1. Turbo C does not, apparently, honor ANSI.SYS and its associated 
>      calls. Any reason, patch?

I cannot verify this.  Tim does not mention exactly what "associated calls"
he is attempting to use, nor what Turbo C functions he is using to attempt
to invoke them.  However, a simple test shows that Turbo C can, indeed, take
advantage of ANSI.SYS if it is loaded:

#define ESC '\033'
main()
    {
    printf("%c[H%c[J%c[7mthis should be inverse%c[m\n", ESC, ESC, ESC, ESC);
    }

I assume that Tim is either 1. writing C code which accesses the BIOS
rather than going through DOS (As far as I know, none of the standard
Turbo C IO functions do this!), or 2. he does not have ANSI.SYS loaded,
or 3. He is not generating ANSI escape sequences correctly.