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- *----- ZANSI 1.0 ----*
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- Thomas Hanlin III
- 6812 Sydenstricker Rd
- Springfield, VA 22152
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- ZANSI copyright (C) 1986, Thomas Hanlin III. Refer any problems to me
- at the above address.
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- This is the Zephyr ANSI driver, based on Daniel Kegel's excellent ANSI
- driver, NANSI (version 2.2). ZANSI is faster than NANSI and takes up less
- memory and disk space. However, ZANSI is slightly less powerful, as it is
- missing the nonstandard character translation handler provided with NANSI.
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- Distribution policy follows Mr. Kegel's rules: ZANSI may be distributed
- for educational and personal use only. Commercial use is forbidden. If you
- need such a product for commercial applications, please contact Mr. Kegel
- about his program, NANSI. He may be contacted at the following address:
- Daniel Kegel, 2648 169th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98008.
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- ZANSI replaces whatever ANSI driver you currently have installed (if
- any). To use it, you should copy ZANSI.SYS to the root directory of the
- disk(s) you use to boot up (start) your computer. You must also have the
- following line in the file CONFIG.SYS in the root directory of your boot
- disk: DEVICE=ZANSI.SYS
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- If you have DEVICE=ANSI.SYS or DEVICE=NANSI.SYS, you must remove it
- before the DEVICE=ZANSI.SYS line.
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- If this isn't clear to you, please consult your DOS manual.
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- Print speed comparisons, with normal text:
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- ANSI is 8.3% faster than no device driver.
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- NANSI is 22.6% faster than no device driver,
- or 15.6% faster than ANSI.
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- ZANSI is 27.5% faster than no device driver,
- or 20.9% faster than ANSI,
- or 6.3% faster than NANSI.
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- Memory requirement comparisons:
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- No driver: 0 bytes
- ANSI : 1536 bytes
- NANSI : 3200 bytes
- ZANSI : 2816 bytes
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- Assembly language programmers: The source code to ZANSI is included.
- To create a working copy of ZANSI.SYS, you need to do the following:
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- MASM ZANSI;
- MASM ZANSI_P;
- MASM ZANSI_F;
- MASM ZANSI_I;
- LINK ZANSI+ZANSI_P+ZANSI_F+ZANSI_I;
- EXE2BIN NANSI NANSI.SYS
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- You can ignore the "no stack" warning error produced by LINK.
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