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From: c60c-4au@e260-4d.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is 'ANSI graphics'?
Keywords: Information wanted
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Date: 8 Sep 88 06:42:43 GMT
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In article <13990@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> koonce@math.berkeley.edu writes:
>
>   While working on a terminal program, I've received numerous suggestions that I try to support 'ANSI graphics'.  But I've yet to find someone that
>knows what this is, or where to find out.  I have been trying for the last month to find this information.  Does anyone know?  Someone is writing
>BBS's and terminal programs that support it, so somebody knows . . .
>
>					- Tim Koonce
>
>koonce@math.berkeley.edu
>...!ucbvax!math!koonce

Generally, for most public bulletin board systems, ANSI graphics is a 
combination of the ANSI Terminal codes supported by MS/PC-DOS with its
ANSI.SYS driver and the enhanced ASCII codes 128-255 as supported by
IBM-PC computers.  For information on which ANSI codes these represent,
look in a manual on MS-DOS.  If you are developing a program on a non-IBM
system, getting the enhanced ASCII codes may be a pain however.  Also, there
is an ANSI-Music standard which one communications program, Qmodem, supports,
but I don't have much information on it.  I hope this helps you.
 
--- Erik Talvola
 
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