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Avery Dennison 6037 Rev. AA 3/04 Programmer Manual User Manual

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5-2 Utility Descriptions

A N S I . S Y S

ANSI.SYS is a console device driver that allows you to support ANSI
codes on the local display.

Syntax

Device=ANSI.SYS [options]

Remarks

ANSI.SYS supports standard ANSI escape sequences.

ANSI.SYS writes directly the screen when using text video mode.

Options

The /K option forces use of the extended keyboard BIOS calls which
sense F11 and F12.

The /X option lets you redefine the extended keys independently.

The /S option disables the keyboard redefinition feature.

The /T

nn option indicates that the video mode nn is a text mode. By

default, modes 0, 1, 2, 3 and 7 are text modes.

Examples

DEVICE=ANSI.SYS

This example loads ANSI.SYS with default settings.

DEVICE=ANSI.SYS /T54 /S

Load ANSI.SYS with mode 54h as a videotext mode and disable keyboard
redefinition.