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- ID:AN ANSI.SYS in DESQview
- Quarterdeck Technical Note #110
- by Stan Young
- last revision: 10 February 1992
-
- USING ANSI SERVICES IN DESQVIEW
-
- While you may load the ANSI driver in your CONFIG.SYS file, the ANSI
- driver is not accessible to programs running in DESQview due to the way ANSI
- is written.
- Therefore, DESQview provides a replacement ANSI driver called DVANSI.COM.
- You should try loading this program in the window before loading the program
- that requires ANSI support.
- The easiest way to do this is to create a DOS batch file called START.BAT
- that has as the first line DVANSI and as the second line the command normally
- used to start your program. Assuming the program was called "MYPROG" the
- batch file would read like this:
-
- C:\DV\DVANSI (or whatever the full path to DVANSI is)
- MYPROG (with a blank line after MYPROG)
-
- Then put this batch file in the directory where you normally start the program
- and run Change a Program, setting the option marked "Program:" to run the
- batch file START. When the window is opened, the batch file will load DVANSI
- and then the program.
- If you require the loading of special ANSI drivers, or would prefer to
- use DOS's ANSI driver and you are running DESQview version 2.2 or greater,
- there is a program (DEVICE.COM) on the DESQview disk that will allow this. To
- load the DOS ANSI driver using DEVICE.COM, your batch file would look as
- follows (assuming the driver was in the C:\DOS directory and DEVICE.COM is in
- C:\DV):
-
- C:\DV\DEVICE C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
- MYPROG
-
- If you need further help in creating batch files, consult your DOS
- manual.
- You may prefer to use DVANSI instead of DEVICE ANSI because DVANSI does
- not write directly to screen, allowing a window in which you load DVANSI to
- run in background or in a small window without virtualization or bleed-
- through, presuming that the program running in the window does not write
- directly to the screen. A newer version of DVANSI (written 20 January 1992)
- that supports 50-line mode may be downloaded from the Quarterdeck BBS (310-314-
- 3227) by those who do not already have it.
-
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