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In article <640@steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen) writes:
>(Quoting me)
>>
>>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.
>>
>
>
>If you just read cursor position you will get:
>	a) the current position if ANSI.SYS
>	b) nothing is not ANSI.SYS
>Please explain why the cursor needs to be positioned (I may be missing
>something here).
>

The return *may* indicate a {0,0} co-ordinate, even if you're not
running an ANSI emulator. So you positon it away from {0,0}, then
you read it. If you get back *anything* that doesn't match what you
expect, either 1)you're not running ANSI or 2)you have a bug :-)


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