Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site prism.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!cca!prism!matt From: matt@prism.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: PC screen control Message-ID: <7700008@prism.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 13:16:00 EDT Article-I.D.: prism.7700008 Posted: Sat Jun 22 13:16:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 08:23:36 EDT References: <2272@mhuxd.UUCP> Lines: 24 Nf-ID: #R:mhuxd:-227200:prism:7700008:000:1179 Nf-From: prism!matt Jun 22 13:16:00 1985 /**** 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? /* ---------- */ 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). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Landau {cca, datacube, ihnp4, inmet, mit-eddie, wjh12}... Mirror Systems, Inc. ...mirror!prism!matt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Spontaneity has its time and place..."