Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Dave Smethurst Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.pc Subject: Re: Not Ready! Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 23:19:35 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <33442CF7.2E364B94@ulthwe.foobar.co.uk> References: <33430281.1222465@news.playstation.co.uk> <33428FFC.36B7@interactive.sony.com> <33433f3c.708312@news.playstation.co.uk> <3342D7DF.5D67@innotts.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ulthwe.foobar.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.29 i586) Richard Haskey wrote: > > Gordon Scott wrote: > > > > Another issue: > > The manual states that the line "devicehigh=C:\WINDOWS\ansi.sys" > > should be included in my CONFIG.SYS. I have one copy of ANSI.SYS, but > > it is in my \DOS directory. Does this matter? I have copied this > > file to C:\WINDOWS - still didn't work. So I changed the devicehigh > > path to c:\DOS - stilll no success. > > > > I think that this is a red herring concerning you problem, all the > ansi.sys file does is tells the computer to display the text in SIOCONS > correctly/in the correct colour. If this driver was not loaded the > text would be surrounded by Ascii escape characters. > > And yes you should be able to substitute the > devicehigh=c:\windows\ansi.sys > with devicehigh=c:\dos\ansi.sys. > If you have win95 installed then try using devicehigh=C:\windows\system\ansi.sys (errm .. I think thats where it is... I'm in Linux atm and can't be bothered to check =) ) DJS