Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!panda!teddy!jpn
From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What's faster than 'type'-ing a menu screen
Message-ID: <4670@teddy.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 18:51:44 GMT
References: <4742@ecsvax.UUCP> <4490009@hpcvca.HP.COM> <307@yunccn>
Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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>FANSI-Console is one of the fastest, most compatible ansi drivers I've seen
>(flames gratiously accepted.)

I used to believe this, until I bought Turbo Pascal 4.0 (I don't own TP 3.0,
so I don't know if the same problems exist).  Versions of FANSI-Console
before 2.00 have a incompatibility with the TURBO integrated environment:
The display is full of garbage.  I tracked down the problem to what I
consider a bug in FANSI:  It uses the ROM BIOS parameter ram incompatibly,
and this confuses the TURBO program.

Versions of FANSI-Console AFTER 2.00 fix the above problem.  However,
2.00 introduced ANOTHER incompatibility with Turbo Pascal 4.0.  Apparently,
any program that uses the "DirectVideo" mode of operation (the default)
does not work properly with cursor moves.  I haven't diagnosed this problem
yet:  I'm sticking to an old 1.XX version of FANSI, and I'm using the command
line version of TP.