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Yeah, I noticed a couple things about the ANSI inside of the XP command.com prompt.

1) You have to use command.com, not cmd.exe. 2) I lost the 4000 line x 255 character spread as well, it defaulted to a standard DOS 25 x 80 display. I tried pushing it to 255x4000 after the fact, but was unsuccessful. 3) On the Memory tab, I had to set EMS to None. I also saw that messing with the settings here caused it to work or not work.

NOTE: 1) You should have a Shortcut to MS-DOS Program icon for it. 2) You get to the set of tabs by right clicking on the short-cut icon, then clicking upon Properties. 3) When changing a setting, you need to double-click upon the shortcut icon to test it out. It will NOT take affect in windows that are already open. I ended up "exit"ing the window, changing the properties in the shortcut, then restarting the window. 4) You might want to make sure you have an ANSI.SYS file inside of %systemroot%-system32. I buttumed that XP installed the file on all XP systems. I tested it on an XP Pro system. 5) You can mess with the positioning loading of ANSI.SYS inside of the ANSI.NT file, just like you'd do in the old DOS days. I got the DEVICEHIGH=%systemroot%-system32-ansi.sys to work, as well as the DEVICE=%systemroot%-system32-ansi.sys. I stuck with the the DEVICEHIGH statement and then started messing with the Memory tab properties and noticed that ANSI.SYS would show itself inside of a memc or memp but it only seemed to work if EMS=None. I was happy to get it working and posted.

Here's what the Memory tab looks like:

Conventional Memory Total: Auto Protected: Checked (although I tested it unchecked as well) Initial Environment: Auto

Expanded (EMS) Memory Total: None

Extended (XMS) Memory Total: Auto Uses HMA: Checked

MS-DOS protected-mode (DPMI) memory Total: Auto

The other settings on the other tabs I didn't mess with. If you still can't get it to work and would like to know what the other settings are, or what a specific setting is, let me know and I'll post back.

And thanks! I'll take a look at the Pablo thing...

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