• ANSI.SYS is a device driver in the DOS family of operating systems that provides extra console functions through ANSI escape sequences. It is partially...
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    in PC Clones. DOS version 2.0 included an optional device driver named ANSI.SYS. Poor performance, and the fact that it was not installed by default, meant...
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  • environments. ANSI art also contains special ANSI escape sequences that color text with the 16 foreground and 8 background colours offered by ANSI.SYS, an MS-DOS...
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  • for MS-DOS 5: DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS FILES=30 SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS /E:512...
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    load the ANSI.SYS driver, viewing ANSI art required reconfiguring and rebooting. Because of this, ANSI art was much less common, and getting ANSI art to...
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  • saving data to tape or disk files. A utility, ANSI.SYS, can be used to enable the interpreting of the ANSI (ECMA-48) terminal escape sequences under DOS...
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    ASCII art (section ANSI)
    and a flash option. Such art can be loaded into screen memory directly. ANSI.SYS, if loaded, also allows such art to be placed on screen by outputting escape...
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    An example CONFIG.SYS for MS-DOS 5: DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS FILES=30 SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND...
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  • ANSI.SYS: ANSI console driver. EMM386.EXE: Expanded memory manager. HIMEM.SYS: Extended memory manager. RAMDRIVE.SYS / VDISK.SYS: RAM disk; VDISK.SYS...
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    CONFIG.SYS, loading ANSI.SYS into UMBs, no EMS support enabled: DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS AUTOEXEC...
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    of use, standard processing of ANSI Escape sequences very similar to the 1970s VT100, is implemented in both ANSI.SYS and other more modern pseudo-terminal...
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    calls provide a way to write text on the screen, and the ANSI.SYS driver could process standard ANSI escape sequences. However, programmers soon learned that...
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  • ISO/IEC 2022 (redirect from ANSI X3.41)
    with ISO 2022 include ISO/IEC 6429, portions of which are implemented by ANSI.SYS and terminal emulators. ISO 2022 itself also defines particular control...
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    environment variables, device driver support, FOR and GOTO loops in batch files, ANSI.SYS. Version 2.0 (OEM), First version to support double-sided 360 KB 5.25-inch...
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  • from the original ANSI C standard, it was developed at the same time as the C POSIX library, which is a superset of it. Since ANSI C was adopted by the...
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  • System request (redirect from Sys rq key)
    System Request (SysRq or Sys Req) is a key on personal computer keyboards that has no standard use. Introduced by IBM with the PC/AT, it was intended to...
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  • Multiuser DOS for ASCII terminals). If the variable is not defined and no ANSI.SYS console driver is detected, the DR-DOS COMMAND.COM will directly clear...
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    10 June 2006. Retrieved 9 October 2006. under Windows 2000 or XP, the ansi.sys file may have to be added to the CONFIG.NT file in the system32 directory...
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    DOS/V (redirect from $FONT.SYS)
    Japanese magazine on IBM clones) Japanese and Korean issues of the DR DOS ANSI.SYS driver contain support for a number of special arguments to switch to Japanese...
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    encouraged him to use the PC to earn some revenue so he wrote an article about ANSI.SYS and the PROMPT command. This was submitted to PC Magazine for which they...
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    press the Escape key. The console also supports extended escape sequences, ANSI CSI Mode sequences, and DEC Private Mode sequences. These extended sequences...
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  • Implemented by the built-in console device driver or a replacement driver like ANSI.SYS 2Ah Networking and critical section 3.0+ Called by DOS kernel to interface...
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  • command prompt nor exit to DOS from Windows; real mode drivers such as ANSI.SYS could not be loaded and older applications that require real mode could...
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    filenames. A typical sequence for %$ON% would be \033[1m in conjunction with ANSI.SYS, \033p for an ASCII terminal or \016 for an IBM or ESC/P printer. Likewise...
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  • commands and their flags; CONFIG.SYS directives; batch file syntax; and comprehensive glossaries for EDLIN, DEBUG, and ANSI.SYS. DOS Power Tools was a hot-seller...
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  • as loosely coupled components in which a special version of the DR-DOS ANSI.SYS driver would mute the stream of text messages at startup of the DOS system...
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    Berkeley socket interface through the ANSI/POSIX Environment (APE) that implements an interface close to ANSI C and POSIX, with some common extensions...
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  • POSIX (redirect from Sys/ipc.h)
    comprised several standards: POSIX.1: Core Services (incorporates Standard ANSI C) (IEEE Std 1003.1-1988) Process Creation and Control Signals Floating Point...
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  • operating system developed by International Computers Limited VMEbus, the ANSI/IEEE computer hardware bus standard Virtual machine escape is the process...
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  • file system and installable device drivers (e.g. ANSI.SYS) in the system configuration file CONFIG.SYS—a first step towards plug and play. New internal...
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