Re: Windows ME and Skymap

From: Mark Hanning-Lee (markhl@prodigy.net)
Date: Sat Jul 14 2001 - 15:56:19 PDT

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    Thanks to Ray for letting us know about this! Summary:
    
    Rob Matson's skymap and iridflar need ANSI sequences to make the menus
    readable.
    Most versions of Windows let you load the ansi.sys driver in config.sys.
    Windows ME no longer supports real mode so ansi.sys doesn't work.
    
    The freeware ansi.com does work!
    ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pcmagutl/ansi132.zip .
    If you put it in autoexec.bat, WinME carefully removes it.
    
    So you need to load it before running skymap or iridflar.
    E.g. put it in a batch file, maybe unload it afterwards.
    Simple usage is a batch file containing:
    
    ansi
    iridflar
    ansi /u
    
    If you want to get fancy:
    
    @echo off
    rem Echo off hides all subsequent commands & comments. @ hides the echo
    off command itself
    rem Load the ANSI emulator & discard the command output & errors
    ansi >> nul
    rem launch Matson's program that requires ANSI
    skymap
    rem Unload the ANSI emulator, discarding the command output & errors
    ansi /u >> nul
    
    
    Best, Mark
    
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