ANSI detection

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 07-28-92 (17:09)             Number: 126
From: ARTHUR WARD                  Refer#: NONE
  To: MARVELL EVANS                 Recvd: NO  
Subj: ANSI detection                 Conf: (1) 80xxx

 > How would I go about detecting if ANSI.SYS is loaded?  I do NOT want
 > to look in the config.sys file for "ANSI" (this was actually
 > suggested in another echo).  I will post a little of the code that I
 > have and perhaps you all can help me figure out what I am doing
 > wrong....
Just send the "Get Cursor" command to the console and turn around to see if
there is a key in the keyboard buffer. If so, you have
ANSI. If not, you don't have ANSI. In any case, don't
forget to send a CR and then the spaces to erase the ansi
sequence in the event that there isn't ansi avaliable.

- Arthur

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