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Why doesn ANSI.SYS work in DESQview?

April 26, 2017ANSI.SYS desqview

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Why doesn ANSI.SYS work in DESQview?

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A215: ANSI.SYS doesn’t work inside DESQview because DESQview takes control of all the screen writes. Quarterdeck has provided two solutions. Provided with DESQview is DVANSI.COM. This program can be in the window in which you need ANSI.SYS. The other solution is to load your ANSI device driver in a DESQview window with the DEVICE.COM loader included with DESQview and DESQview/X. Since the DEVICE.COM solution uses your own ANSI driver, any features that it has are available to it, including keyboard remapping. DESQview’s DVANSI does not contain the keyboard remapping features of MS-DOS’s ANSI.SYS in order to protect from ANSI bombs. QW:110:DVANSI.

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A215: ANSI.SYS doesn’t work inside DESQview because DESQview takes control of all the screen writes. Quarterdeck has provided two solutions. Provided with DESQview is DVANSI.COM. This program can be in the window in which you need ANSI.SYS. The other solution is to load your ANSI device driver in a DESQview window with the DEVICE.COM loader included with DESQview and DESQview/X. Since the DEVICE.COM solution uses your own ANSI driver, any features that it has are available to it, including keyboard remapping. DESQview’s DVANSI does not contain the keyboard remapping features of MS-DOS’s ANSI.SYS in order to protect from ANSI bombs.