Re: ANSI won't work in program, WHY NOT??? <<AARGH>>

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From: DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:37

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In article <1e4setINNelb@hurricane.ksu.ksu.edu>, butler@hurricane.ksu.ksu.edu (The Hornet) writes:
|>     I am working on modifying my keyboard to make a program of mine a 
|>little bit more user friendly.  I have had success in doing this to other
|>programs, but It won't work on this one.  I am assuming that the program
|>has been written to override ANSI but I don't want it to.  Any clues on
|>how to solve this problem?

ANSI.SYS only works with programs that use DOS function calls to do their I/O.
Probably this "problem" program uses the ROM-BIOS to get its keystrokes.

Tschuess,
David Paschal

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Subject: Re: ANSI won't work in program,  WHY NOT???  <<AARGH>>
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