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- From: cl27111@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Lindsey)
- Subject: Re: Detecting ANSI.SYS (was: Re: DOS text attributes)
- References: <ByzzKv.4GF@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <1992Dec11.204520.143@archtwr.tower.nullnet.fi>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:16:51 GMT
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- wizard@archtwr.tower.nullnet.fi (Mikko H{nninen) writes:
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- >I've received so many postings to use ANSI and no other solutions (that I can
- >use), so I suppose I have to use ANSI. Which leads to my next question:
- >I know I can detect ANSI driver by comparing an interrupt's and the CON
- >device's segment addresses (I think). But is this reliable? Are there any
- >other programs aside from ANSI that act as the CON device?
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- >Anyway, thanks for all those who have replied to my question.
-
- Don't give up hope yet! I know that there are ways of doing what you were
- looking for; Norton Command Center changes DOS colors without loading
- ANSI.SYS or a comparable driver. Anyhow, I wanted to hear the answer too!
-
- Chris
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