Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: How to detect if fd #0/#1 are the local console

2004-08-05 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi Steffen, But back to the question: HOW DOES FREECOM KNOW THAT THE CURRENT STANDARD OUTPUT IS THE DEVICE DRIVEN BY THE BIOS? Is it save / useful to use BIOS functions. Or how can FreeCOM ensure the human sitting on the other side of the line is seeing the results. The only reliable way is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: How to detect if fd #0/#1 are the local console

2004-08-05 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Bart Oldeman wrote: Hello Bart, But back to the question: HOW DOES FREECOM KNOW THAT THE CURRENT STANDARD OUTPUT IS THE DEVICE DRIVEN BY THE BIOS? Is it save / useful to use BIOS functions. Or how can FreeCOM ensure the human sitting on the other side of the line is seeing the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Performance problem with FORMAT 0.91r

2004-08-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Well, this is embarrassing. I downgraded to 0.91o and it is no faster. I could have sworn it got slower when I upgraded to 0.91r... But maybe I am just crazy and it was never as fast as I remember. I apologize for the false alarm. - Pat

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: How to detect if fd #0/#1 are the local console

2004-08-05 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Steffen Kaiser wrote: a) you cannot detect an ANSI driver across the line **), and b) you do not know for sure what CTTY is in place, except the shell itself has invoked it ***). True. And now my opinion is that you can only assume that a VT100-style terminal is in place