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Re: question about ansi.sys and ega

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From: Bennett Broder
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1986 01:07
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In article <737@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>In article <1269@condor.UUCP> al@condor.UUCP (Al Gudaitis) writes:
>>I hope someone can explain why my AT (which has an EGA card) hangs up when I
>>send an escape sequence to the terminal device.  If I create a file with the
>>somebody can explain and solve my problem (I can't run microemacs this way).
>
>I believe that I read somewhere that ANSI.SYS does not support the EGA card.
>Except when in CGA compatable mode, but in EGA mode, nope.
>
>This information doesn't help you, but at least you know why.

I have never had any problem using ansi.sys with my Quad EGA+, but I
would highly recommend using NANSI.SYS (posted to the net a while back)
instead.  This driver fully supports the EGA, even the 43 line mode.

-- 

Ben Broder
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From: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
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Subject: Re: question about ansi.sys and ega
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Date: Sat, 28-Jun-86 21:07:31 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 28 21:07:31 1986
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