aruit@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (A. de Ruiter) (11/16/89)
Is there anybody out there who knows how you can check from out a user program
if the ANSI.SYS driver is loaded. In a c/assembler program I frequently use
several ANSI escape sequences to write certain information to the display. In
case the ANSI.SYS driver of MS-DOS is not loaded from config.sys, the output
on the display looks terrible. Now I want to check in the beginning of my
program if the ANSI.SYS driver is running or not. In that way I can give an
error message to inform the user to load the driver first before restarting the
program.
Please if you have suggestions and/or c/assemble sources send them to me.
I use MSC5.1, MASM5.1 and CTOOLS+5.0 for the development of this program.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer) (11/28/89)
In article <622@ssp16.idca.tds.philips.nl>, aruit@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (A. de Ruiter) writes: > Is there anybody out there who knows how you can check from out a user program > if the ANSI.SYS driver is loaded. It seems one way to do this is to send a Device Status Report (DSR) sequence, and to check whether the Cursor Position Report (CPR) has arrived on stdin... i.e., send a "\0x1b[6n", and read a "\0x1b[%d;%dR", line, column. There is little chance that the user will type in exactly that at the right time, don't you think ? Markus Fischer -|--|--|--|--|--|--I Department of Anthropology -|--|--|--|--|--|--|-(#)-I University of Geneva -|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|-(#)-|-(#)(#)(_)-I CH-1227 Carouge (GE) -&-(_)-|--|--|-(#)-&--|-(#)(#)(_)(#)-&-(_)(#)-I Switzerland -|--|--|--|--|-(#)(_)-|-(_)(_)(_)(#)-I black (#) to kill ! --|--|-(#)(_)(_)(_)(#)(#)(_)(_) fisher@sc2a.unige.ch =+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+=(#)=+ fisher@cgeuge52.bitnet