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From: dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Video Attributes
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Date: 10 Feb 88 14:10:19 GMT
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Reply-To: dan@rem.UUCP (Dan Kegel)
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Clayton Cramer writes:
>> How do you change the video attributes on an IBM PC. I would like to
>> bold,reverse,underline strings on the screen...
> Use ANSI.SYS, but note that using the ANSI driver is very slow --
> adequate for very simple programs, but not for a commercial product.

True enough, but there are public domain replacements for the ANSI driver
that are very fast, and quite adequate for commercial products.
The two I know about are NANSI.SYS (my favorite :-) and the recently posted
QWIKANSI.SYS.  If your application sets RAW mode on the console fd
(this is done with the IOCTL system call) and uses NANSI, plain old
puts and printf statements run ten times faster than before.
-- 
   Dan Kegel
   srs!dan@cs.rochester.edu  dan%srs.uucp@cs.rochester.edu  rochester!srs!dan