A creature called Eric Weigel screamed at 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?

MV>Write an ANSI emulator... About 400 lines...

 EW> Wouldn't it be easier to use the built in ANSI support?
 EW>  copy ansifile.dat con
 EW> or
 EW>  type ansifile.dat
 EW> should do the trick.  If you really want to write a program
 EW> to do it, then in order of pain:

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

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

void DspAns(char *filename)
{
   ULONG l;
   char *stuff;
   ULONG openflag,openmode,action;
   FILESTATUS3 infobuf;
   HFILE infile;
    
   openflag = OPEN_ACTION_FAIL_IF_NEW|OPEN_ACTION_OPEN_IF_EXISTS;
   openmode = OPEN_SHARE_DENYWRITE|OPEN_ACCESS_READONLY|
              OPEN_FLAGS_FAIL_ON_ERROR;
   if(DosOpen(filename, &infile,&action,0L,0L,openflag,openmode,NULL))
   {
      printf("Error reading %s!\n\rPlease inform the SysOp!",filename);
      return;
   }
      // read the length of the file
   DosQueryFileInfo(infile,1,&infobuf,sizeof(infobuf));
      // malloc enough space
   stuff=(char *)malloc(infobuf.cbFile*sizeof(char));
      // read all the input file into the buffer (stuff)
   DosRead(infile,stuff,infobuf.cbFile,&l);
      // write the buffer to the screen
   VioWrtTTY(stuff,infobuf.cbFile,0);
      // close the file
   DosClose(infile);
      // free the buffer
   free(stuff);
}

   .\\ike Stella
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