ANSI.SYS question

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J.Kearney

OK here's an oldie but goodie. I have one very(!) old DOS program still
hanging around; a shareware phonebook from the days when Simtel20 was
at WSMR and ftp was something new. It's pre-GUI.

Menuing and cursor control is done using ANSI control characters. From
DOS through Win95 I could put DEVICE=<path>\ansi.sys into config.sys.
With Win2K I put it into config.nt.

Config.nt exists on XP Pro and I placed DEVICE=c:\windows\system32\ansi.sys
in it. Did a re-boot and expected my old Phonebook to work. It does, but
the
cursor is functioning as if ANSI.SYS didn't load. It's been so long now I
forget
if I had to place it in HIMEM.

So I figured maybe another "old timer" might remember, before I start
digging
through ancient archives for an old config.sys or config.nt.

Thanks & enjoy the holidays!
JK
 
Type ANSI.SYS in the Search box in Help and Support.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
 
If you can't get XP's ANSI.SYS to work with it, you might try PCANSI.COM
which works great for the old DOS things I still use. If you can't find it,
email me and I'll send it to you.

Steve
 
|>OK here's an oldie but goodie. I have one very(!) old DOS program still
|>hanging around; a shareware phonebook from the days when Simtel20 was
|>at WSMR and ftp was something new. It's pre-GUI.
|>
|>Menuing and cursor control is done using ANSI control characters. From
|>DOS through Win95 I could put DEVICE=<path>\ansi.sys into config.sys.
|>With Win2K I put it into config.nt.
|>
|>Config.nt exists on XP Pro and I placed DEVICE=c:\windows\system32\ansi.sys
|>in it. Did a re-boot and expected my old Phonebook to work. It does, but
|>the
|>cursor is functioning as if ANSI.SYS didn't load. It's been so long now I
|>forget
|>if I had to place it in HIMEM.
|>
|>So I figured maybe another "old timer" might remember, before I start
|>digging
|>through ancient archives for an old config.sys or config.nt.

Too much work. I still play the old games and use DosBox
http://tinyurl.com/as8p6 the ansi is taken care of.
 
Hey guys, thanks for the help!

It was operator error!! I had put the DEVICE line into config.nt,
but forgot to save the change before rebooting. Works great now.

Duh!

Enjoy the holidays!!!!
 
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