Monday March 20 1995, Mike Stella writes to Jay Collins:

 MV> JC>> Anyone know a way to dispay Thedraw ANsi's to the screen
 MV> JC>> under Os/2 using the VIO stuff?

 EW>> Write to stdout or cout.
 EW>> Open a file "CON" and write to it.
 EW>> Use VioWrtTTY.
 EW>> Re-invent an ANSI emulator.

 MS>    Howabout this, my newest method, used in the door game I'm writing:

 MS>       printf("Error reading %s!\n\rPlease inform the
SysOp!",filename);
 MS>       return;
 MS>    }
 MS>       // read the length of the file
 MS>    DosQueryFileInfo(infile,1,&infobuf,sizeof(infobuf));
 MS>       // malloc enough space
 MS>    stuff=(char *)malloc(infobuf.cbFile*sizeof(char));
 MS>       // read all the input file into the buffer (stuff)
 MS>    DosRead(infile,stuff,infobuf.cbFile,&l);
 MS>       // write the buffer to the screen
 MS>    VioWrtTTY(stuff,infobuf.cbFile,0);
 MS>       // close the file
 MS>    DosClose(infile);
 MS>       // free the buffer
 MS>    free(stuff);
 MS> }

How about using the MECCA language? It's specifically developed for use
with Maximus and takes care of a writing output to the remote user's
screen.

John

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