markz@microsoft.UUCP (06/16/84)
"... 1 person reported a strange occurence. Control-P seemed to be interpreted as Control-PrintScreen, but only if pressed when the speaker is making noise (e.g. Control-G)...." ^P is identical in function to Control-PrintScreen regardless of what the speaker is doing. If a program is using DOS calls to read its input, the keys are identical in function. If it uses the ROM directly (so much for portability), then it sees two different characters.
cnrdean@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (03/13/85)
Could you please: (1) Give me a brief description of the purpos of the ANSI.SYS file is for. and (2) Give me the name of a document which describes it well enough for me to use it. Thanks Sam Scalise
peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (08/23/85)
Is there anyone out there that has an ANSI.SYS that's really ANSI? That is,
it should support most of the ANSI escape sequences, in particular SET
SCROLLING REGION: sc=\E[%d,%dr.
--
Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva
UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter
MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) (08/25/85)
> Is there anyone out there that has an ANSI.SYS that's really ANSI? That is, > it should support most of the ANSI escape sequences, in particular SET > SCROLLING REGION: sc=\E[%d,%dr. > -- > Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva > UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter > MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076 There is a program in the BBS circuit called FANSI.SYS which is both a full ansi.sys and a replacement for IBM's screen BIOS (which is very slow). Due to both size and binary nature I am not posting it :-), but if you call your local IBM BBS you should find this program. [It is a freeware product, if you decide to use it, the author would like some $$$, which is reasonable...] -- Opinions expressed are public domain, and do not belong to Lotus Development Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner {genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!slerner {cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!slerner slerner%sesame@harvard.ARPA
jqj@cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson) (08/26/85)
In article <514@baylor.UUCP> peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >Is there anyone out there that has an ANSI.SYS that's really ANSI? That is, >it should support most of the ANSI escape sequences, in particular SET >SCROLLING REGION: sc=\E[%d,%dr. It should be noted that while the DEC VT100 supports \E[%d;%dr to mean SET SCROLLING REGION (note, NOT \E[%d,%dr which is not even ANSI format), this is not a standard ANSI sequence. The ANSI standard reserves the sequences <ESC>[<params>x where x is a lowercase letter for private use. Since DEC is the largest manufacturer of ANSI terminals, \E[...r meaning SET SCROLLING REGION has become something of a de facto standard, of course. However, it's the "feature" of VT100-compatible terminals that a compatibles maker most often seems to get wrong. Instead of asking for SET SCROLLING REGION, people should ask for fast implementations of INSERT LINE (\E[%dL), DELETE LINE (\E[%dM), settable INSERT-REPLACE MODE (\E[4h and \E[4l), and DELETE CHARACTER (\E[%dP). From da Silva's notation, he obviously wants something that will work well with Unix termcap. If so, then C/L I/D are actually preferable. He shouldn't expect a VT100 emulator, since the PC can't easily support 132-col mode.
hamilton@uiucuxc.Uiuc.ARPA (08/30/85)
>There is a program in the BBS circuit called FANSI.SYS which is both >a full ansi.sys and a replacement for IBM's screen BIOS (which is >very slow). Due to both size and binary nature I am not posting it >:-), but if you call your local IBM BBS you should find this program. > >[It is a freeware product, if you decide to use it, the author would >like some $$$, which is reasonable...] i can vouch for fansi being nifty. however it's not exactly freeware. binaries and an incomplete manual (leaving out the details of ansi emulation) are freely distributed via bbs's for trial use. they rely on the honor system for getting their royalty payments. the distinction is that they really do expect payments, not voluntary contributions. wayne hamilton