Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bat file using ESC seq needs to find if DEVICE=ANSI.SYS was set
Message-ID: <10311@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 7 Apr 88 18:19:38 GMT
References: <767@ms3.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 13
Keywords: ansi.sys, Escape Sequences, errorlevel, find, grep, DOS, unix

From the DOS3.00 tech ref manual, pg 2-10:

  If you send the console device a "Device Ststus Report" escape
sequence, which is ESC[6n it will return a "Cursor Position Report"
which is ESC[#;#R. The first # is line, the second column. Don't know if
they're 0 or 1 based.

   Just remember to do a non-blocking read (raw read) when checking for
the return value, as you'll hang waiting for keyboard input otherwise.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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