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From: "Graeme Evans" <evans@fourny.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Siocons <-[7m eh??
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 16:09:48 -0000
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>OK, got the NY today.  Mmmm nice.  No IDE with the standard
>dev tools?  I got CodeWarrior but I don't really want code
>that's over twice as slow.  Come on Metrowerks sort it out!
>

You can load a gnu makefile into visual c++ and use microsofts IDE (minus
debugger). Mmm... nice.

>OK, with SIOCONS I'm getting rubbish characters output like this:
>
>  type -[7m F1 -[0;36;1m  ----> display help
>       ^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^
>
>What's that all about?

Its that you need to load ANSI.SYS. Well you dont need to load it, you just
get a load of garbage characters instead of colour if you dont.

cheerio

Graeme