[Tutor] console text positioning

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Sun Nov 13 09:45:53 CET 2005


>      ANSI is the standard for terminal control, so I usually code for
>      that, but put it in a separate module so that other terminals can
>      easily be accommodated.

It certainly used to be under MS DOS but I find very few windows 
machines set up to use ANSI codes. Do you know any way to set 
ANSI controls under wIndows (that doesn't require a reboot ideally!)

ISTR it involved putting the line 

DISPLAY=ANSI

in the Config.sys file.
Does that still work under XP?  I suppose it should...

Alan G
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