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From: matt@prism.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC screen control
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Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 13:16:00 EDT
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/**** prism:net.micro.pc / mhuxd!cwc /  3:30 pm  Jun 18, 1985 ****/
I am trying to locate a comprehensive list of screen control
characters and/or escape sequences for PCs (and compatibles).
The IBM PC-DOS manual gives a few, e.g., absolute cursor addressing,
clear to end of line, etc., but there have to be many more.  Anyone
have a reference?
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Virtually any version of the DOS Technical Reference Manual will list
all the escape codes recognized by the screen device driver ANSI.SYS.
Programs using the ansi driver should be portable to most MS-DOS systems,
be they PC's or not.  They'll also be terribly slow on output.

For PC's and "real" compatibles you can get better performance by using
the BIOS level video interrupt, which is documented in the IBM PC (or
AT) Technical Reference Manual (in the assembly languag BIOS
listings).

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