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The ANSITERM Alternate Terminal Driver
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The ANSITERM terminal driver supports the ANSI screen mode for all
screen display from CA-Clipper programs.
This screen mode is installed by specifying ANSI.SYS in the user's
CONFIG.SYS. ANSI.SYS replaces the default DOS CON device driver for
video display and keyboard input. Once installed it supports ANSI
escape sequences to erase the screen, set the screen mode, and control
the cursor in a hardware-independent way. Most modern DOS programs,
however, do not use it and write either directly to the video hardware
or use BIOS routines for enhanced screen performance.
Use the ANSI screen mode for CA-Clipper programs that run on hardware
that does not support either writing to video hardware or BIOS calls for
screen display. This is the case when using alternative display
hardware to support the blind.
Note: The ANSITERM terminal driver fully supports all screen and
keyboard functionality of the default terminal driver. This includes
the ability to save and restore screens and support for all keys on the
standard 101-key keyboard.
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