Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!rna!dan
From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Which ANSI.SYS for PC/VI ?
Message-ID: <251@rna.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 04:33:58 GMT
References: <246@rna.UUCP> <248@rna.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <248@rna.UUCP> dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) writes:
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))	I am looking for a decent ANSI.SYS driver for use with PC/VI (a
))VI clone for the PC). I have FANSI-CONSOLE and (at least the version I
))have) screws up the graphics mode of my Zenith EGA video card. The ANSI.SYS
))that comes with the Zenith 386 works okay with PC/VI but doesn't allow
))PC/VI to use al and dl (TERMCAP for add line and delete line) which makes
))screen updating much less optimal. I think I've tried NANSI.SYS and
))ANSIIBM.SYS with no better success.
)	An update. I tried NANSI.SYS again and found that it does work
)using only al and dl -- using AL and DL hangs the machine. However, it also
)only works once. The second invocation of PC/VI freezes the keyboard.
)In addition, using NANSI.SYS hangs the program NSWP (a handy directory and
)ARC file browser). It seems to fail on highlighting (ESC [7m I think).

	A final update (I hope). The newest versionof NANSI.SYS I now have
works okay, IF you only use al and dl, not AL and DL. Also you can't use
DC (delete character). These three ANSI sequences hang my machine with
NANSI.SYS (when issued by PC/VI, I don't know about in general). But I can
live with that. NSWP also works now, as does my EGA card. NANSIS.SYS did not
work.
	With so many comm programs emulating VT100's, you'd think someone could
get a good ANSI.SYS to work. I realize that some of these problems are probably
the fault of PC/VI and that an MSDOS driver is harder to write than the screen
portion of a comm program.
program.