jmsellens@watrose.UUCP (John M Sellens) (06/14/84)
I asked several weeks ago if anybody knew of any bad side effects of using the ANSI.SYS console driver, specifically with Pascal/MT+. I received a few replies whcih are summarized below. I have been using ANSI.SYS since that time myself and have had no undesireable side effects (except restricting myself to DOS 2.x) (but I have been using a small subset of the ANSI.SYS capabilities). - 2 people reported writing (and using) programs that use ANSI.SYS extensively with no problems. This enabled one person to port to Dec Rainbow, NEC APC, and Tandy 2000 with NO MODIFICATIONS! - 1 person "ran into trouble with its destructive tabs" and reported that backspacing past the left margin screws up the tab positioning. - 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). ------- John M Sellens UUCP: watmath!watrose!jmsellens CSNET: jmsellens%watrose@waterloo.csnet ARPA: jmsellens%watrose%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa