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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: ALTERNATE ANSI DRIVERS
Message-ID: <8967@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 18:10:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  9 18:10:09 1987
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <606@uoregon.UUCP>, henderso@uoregon.UUCP (Mark C. Henderson) writes:
> 1. NANSI.SYS - This driver gives a shorter beep and faster operation. It is
>    small and is compatible with all software that I know of. It is either
>    shareware or in the public domain, I'm not sure. It also "snows" on more
>    primitve CGA cards.

The newest version has code to avoid the CGA snow, and the source code for
the full driver is in the public domain.  (It includes C subroutines to set
"raw mode" in MS-DOS, and when used properly can paint a full screen on a
mono XT faster than you can blink.)  The author is Dan Kegel, who has done a
fine job on it.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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