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PK SAFE ANSI
Another program included with registration of PKZIP 2 is called
PKSFANSI.COM. PKSFANSI is a terminate and stay resident program that
disables ANSI keyboard key Reassignments, thereby preventing ANSI "bombs"
embedded in any text file (such as README files) or output by any program.
Normally, ANSI sequences that redefine the keyboard could be hidden inside
ANY text file or program, and could be executed completely unnoticed until
it is too late. PKSFANSI intercepts calls to the ANSI.SYS or other ANSI
device drivers, and filters out any keyboard reassignments, while allowing
other ANSI sequences through unaltered. If a keyboard reassignment is
attempted, PKSFANSI will intercept the sequence and discard it. PKSFANSI
will also BEEP to alert you that a reassignment was attempted.
PKSFANSI requires less than 1K bytes resident RAM, and should work with
any ANSI driver, such as the standard ANSI.SYS driver, NANSI, ZANSI,
DVANSI, etc. Note that if you use a memory resident ANSI driver, such as
the DESQview DVANSI.COM driver, PKSFANSI should be loaded after the ANSI
driver is loaded.
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