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Subject: Re: Turbo C - >Graphics, CGA, EGA, et.al.
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Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 19:35:18 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 15 19:35:18 1987
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Summary: Uh...Turbo C does support ANSI.SYS.

In article <661@ur-cvsvax.UUCP>, tim@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Tim Takahashi) writes:
> Just got a Tandy 3000 with EGA and Turbo C. Here are a couple of questions
>  concerning TC :
> 
>  1. Turbo C does not, apparently, honor ANSI.SYS and its associated 
>       calls. Any reason, patch?

My Turbo C does indeed support ANSI.SYS...in fact, I didn't realize that the
ANSI escape string to clear the screen wouldn't work on machines that didn't
run ANSI.SYS (gee, that sounds dumb...it struck me as BEING dumb when I
realized the problem! :-) until I ran into a machine at work that didn't
have ANSI.SYS loaded. Grrrrrr...

>  2. Turbo C has no support for graphics. Any solutions? Should I poke
>       directly into screen memory?

There are lots of nice, PC-specific things that TC doesn't support. Maybe
some enterprising soul will write a package that implements the Turbo Pascal
PC-specific calls (such as sound, graphics,...).

>  3. Would Microsoft C be any better in these regards?

Good question. Still, Microsoft C doesn't have the nice development
environment of TC...

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