Re: Detecting the presence of ANSI.SYS

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From: Ross Greenberg
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1986 17:53

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> Does anyone know of a quick and reliable way of detecting
> whether ANSI.SYS has been installed? 
> -- 

A quick hack:
	Send the ANSI sequence to position your cursor to some location
	{x,y}.

	Send the ANSI sequence to read current cursor poition.  If
	they match, you're running ANSI, else you're not.

ross m. greenberg
ihnp4!allegra!phri!greenber

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