Category : Alternate Operating Systems - Quarterdeck DesqView, CP/M, etc
Archive   : DVANSI.ZIP
Filename : DVANSI.TEC

ID:AN ANSI.SYS in DESQview
Quarterdeck Technical Note #110
by Stan Young

While you may load the ANSI driver in your CONFIG.SYS file, the
ANSI driver is not accessible to programs running in DESQview due
to the way ANSI is written.

Therefore, DESQview provides a replacement ANSI driver called
DVANSI.COM. You should try loading this program in the window
before loading the program that requires ANSI support.

The easiest way to do this is to create a DOS batch file called
START.BAT that has as the first line DVANSI and as the second
line the command normally used to start your program. Assuming
the program was called "MYPROG" the batch file would read like
this:

C:\DV\DVANSI (or whatever the full path to DVANSI is)
MYPROG (with a blank line after MYPROG)

Then put this batch file in the directory where you normally
start the program and run Change a Program, setting the option
marked "Program:" to run the batch file START. When the window is
opened, the batch file will load DVANSI and then the program.

If you require the loading of special ANSI drivers, or would
prefer to use DOS's ANSI driver and you are running DESQview
version 2.2 or greater, there is a program (DEVICE.COM) on the
DESQview disk that will allow this. To load the DOS ANSI driver
using DEVICE.COM, your batch file would look as follows (assuming
the driver was in the C:\DOS directory and DEVICE.COM is in
C:\DV):

C:\DV\DEVICE C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
MYPROG

If you need further help in creating batch files, consult your
DOS manual.

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