On 7/29/2022 11:44 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, Ralf Quint wrote:
Well, not having comments to understand what you are doing is pretty
tough when you don't have the time to analyze the code line by line.
But IIRC, the common way to check for the presence of an ANSI device
>> But IIRC, the common way to check for the presence of an ANSI
>> device driver was to check via an INT 2Fh (multiplexer) call (don't
>> recall the exact call value (AX/AH)).
...
> I remember when Eric Auer added it to NANSI, so it should support
> it:
>
> *
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 1:45 PM Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> > But IIRC, the common way to check for the presence of an ANSI device driver
>> was to check via an INT 2Fh (multiplexer) call (don't recall the exact call
>> value
> > (AX/AH)).
>
> That
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, Ralf Quint wrote:
Well, not having comments to understand what you are doing is pretty tough
when you don't have the time to analyze the code line by line. But IIRC, the
common way to check for the presence of an ANSI device driver was to check
via an INT 2Fh
FWIW, here's the code I use to test whether or not ANSI.SYS is loaded.
;---
;Strings need to test for ANSI.SYS
;---
TestMsg:
DB CR ;String to test
> It seems to me that your checking code currently relies on certain very
> specific assumptions about how the ansi.sys driver behaves (e.g. that
> the driver immediately spits out an ESC [ y ; x R sequence with no delay
> whatsoever).
this very specific assumption is fair to make about
Well, not having comments to understand what you are doing is pretty
tough when you don't have the time to analyze the code line by line. But
IIRC, the common way to check for the presence of an ANSI device driver
was to check via an INT 2Fh (multiplexer) call (don't recall the exact
call
Hello Jerome,
Basically, one of the versions of my ancient (written back in the early 90’s)
Turbo Pascal directory listing programs used ANSI escape sequences to provide
color. Instead of blindly assuming ANSI support is present, it first probes DOS
to verify the functionality. It performs
Hi All,
While recently performing a re-install of everything (System Commander Multiple
DOS, Windows, Linux booting) on my Pentium Pro, I discovered a minor
compatibility issue regarding ANSI.SYS support. Without digging into it more, I
cannot say if the issue is NANSI.SYS or elsewhere in
