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Re: Checking for ANSI.SYS...

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From: George B. Smith
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 06:46
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In article <AUSTIN.90Feb26194024@bucsf.bu.edu>, austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin H. Ziegler, III) writes:
> 	Does anyone know a way to quickly check low memory to see if
> ANSI.SYS or a variant is loaded?  (As usual, C or Pascal of any flavor
> preferred, but BASIC will do...)

Take a look at the March 13, 1990 of PC Magazine, page 376, User-to-User
column for a discussion on this topic.  There is full source to a MASM
program to test for presence of ANSI.SYS as well as a DEBUG script version.

George B. Smith
Stratus Computer, Inc
gbs@swdc.stratus.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!voder!stratus!gbs
From: gbs@stratus.stratus.COM (George B. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Checking for ANSI.SYS...
Summary: pointer to PC Magazine
Message-ID: <7458.26865@stratus.stratus.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 90 06:46:14 GMT
References: <AUSTIN.90Feb26194024@bucsf.bu.edu>
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., Saratoga, CA
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