ID:AN ANSI.SYS in DESQview
Quarterdeck Technical Note #110
by Stan Young

While you may load the ANSI driver in your CONFIG.SYS file, the 
ANSI driver is not accessible to programs running in DESQview due
to the way ANSI is written.

Therefore, DESQview provides a replacement ANSI driver called 
DVANSI.COM.  You should try loading this program in the window 
before loading the program that requires ANSI support.

The easiest way to do this is to create a DOS batch file called 
START.BAT that has as the first line DVANSI and as the second 
line the command normally used to start your program.  Assuming 
the program was called "MYPROG" the batch file would read like 
this:

     C:\DV\DVANSI (or whatever the full path to DVANSI is)
     MYPROG  (with a blank line after MYPROG)

Then put this batch file in the directory where you normally 
start the program and run Change a Program, setting the option
marked "Program:" to run the batch file START.  When the window is 
opened, the batch file will load DVANSI and then the program.

If you require the loading of special ANSI drivers, or would 
prefer to use DOS's ANSI driver and you are running DESQview 
version 2.2 or greater, there is a program (DEVICE.COM) on the 
DESQview disk that will allow this.  To load the DOS ANSI driver 
using DEVICE.COM, your batch file would look as follows (assuming 
the driver was in the C:\DOS directory and DEVICE.COM is in 
C:\DV):

     C:\DV\DEVICE C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
     MYPROG

If you need further help in creating batch files, consult your 
DOS manual.

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