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- ID:AN ANSI.SYS in DESQview
- Quarterdeck Technical Note #110
- by Stan Young
-
- While you may load the ANSI driver in your CONFIG.SYS file, the
- ANSI driver is not accessible to programs running in DESQview due
- to the way ANSI is written.
-
- Therefore, DESQview provides a replacement ANSI driver called
- DVANSI.COM. You should try loading this program in the window
- before loading the program that requires ANSI support.
-
- The easiest way to do this is to create a DOS batch file called
- START.BAT that has as the first line DVANSI and as the second
- line the command normally used to start your program. Assuming
- the program was called "MYPROG" the batch file would read like
- this:
-
- C:\DV\DVANSI (or whatever the full path to DVANSI is)
- MYPROG (with a blank line after MYPROG)
-
- Then put this batch file in the directory where you normally
- start the program and run Change a Program, setting the option
- marked "Program:" to run the batch file START. When the window is
- opened, the batch file will load DVANSI and then the program.
-
- If you require the loading of special ANSI drivers, or would
- prefer to use DOS's ANSI driver and you are running DESQview
- version 2.2 or greater, there is a program (DEVICE.COM) on the
- DESQview disk that will allow this. To load the DOS ANSI driver
- using DEVICE.COM, your batch file would look as follows (assuming
- the driver was in the C:\DOS directory and DEVICE.COM is in
- C:\DV):
-
- C:\DV\DEVICE C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
- MYPROG
-
- If you need further help in creating batch files, consult your
- DOS manual.
-
- Copyright (C) 1991 by Quarterdeck Office Systems
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