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Annie

The previous post:

"'ANSI' has nothing...NOTHING ~-( ) to do with what 'characters' '((,,,))) are displayed on the screen. ,-' ` ( , ANSI is just a way to control `-.-'`-.-'- different things that HAPPEN on the screen...such as where =()=: ,' aa to put the cursor, what colors to display...things like that.

ANSI is a sequence of characters that have a special meaning to the screen."

In fact, in the context of this thread, ANSI has a *lot* to do with the characters that are displayed on the page. Just as there is an ANSI standard for ESC sequences (i.e., the "ANSI.SYS" reference), there are also ANSI standards for the 'characters' that are displayed on the screen when someone attempts to print a certain character code. The problem with your original post is that you confused ANSI standards for character sets with ANSI standards for terminal emulation (IOW, you made the buttumption that the OP was talking about terminal emulation, like that provided by ANSI.SYS). The fact that the thread then degenerated into a discussion of terminal emulation thereafter does not change the fact that you completely misread what was being discussed up to that point. Of course, this is a typical problem one would expect from "DOS is the only OS" users, because DOS had ANSI.SYS but never really had anything like the ANSI character set. It is easy to see how one could make such a mistake if they are such big DOS proponents and never bothered to use systems like Windows, where the ANSI character set gained popularity. Cheers, Randy Hyde