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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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