RW>   Your opinion is that getStream(1) as defined in stdio.h
RW>   cannot be used to capture those ANSI escape sequences so
RW>   that I can print out with cprintf.   I have cprintf here
RW>   in its C function form so that I could change it around
RW>   (re-compile it and put it back into my lib).
   cprintf() and stdout have nothing to do with eachother,
   usually. __getStream(1) assigns a file pointer to stdout.
   The Borland default implementation of cprintf() is a direct
   video memory access data manipulation. I believe, however,
   that you may specify that it be otherwise. I will check...
   [ dig .. dig .. shuffle .. rumble .. RUMBLE?!  Landslide! ]
      ( scrambling out, standing up, brushing self off )
   Ah... found it. Try putting
directvideo = 0;
   in your code. That may be what you are seeking. Otherwise,
   if it is your intention to limit the output window on the
   stdout display, then that IS possible, though I don't know
   the means whereby it is done. There were examples of this
   posted in the past, but I don't seem to have any of them
   in my personal archives. It would not conform to your
   window() parameters unless you specifically informed it of
   those parameters, however. Changing the value of directvideo
   to 0 may cause an automatic interpretation of data to keep
   it all in a defined area, or maybe they even tweek the
   output parameters via some interrupt call for you.
   Hmm... I should just test it, shouldn't I?
   [ fumble .. fumble .. mix .. mix .. shake .. shake .. AhaH! ]
   Ok. It didn't work. This is what I tried. It didn't intercept
   the escape sequences at all. Perhaps I should have opened it
   in binary, but I don't think it would make much difference,
   as far as interpretation of escape sequences is concerned.
   I think intercepting and interpreting the color and cursor
   changes before sending the output to cprintf() is the way.
#include 
#include 
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
   FILE *Read_in;
   char buf[512];
   if(argc < 2)
   {
      puts("usage: wndotest filename.ext");
      return 1;
   }
   Read_in = fopen(argv[1], "r");
   if(!Read_in)
   {
      printf("Unable to open %s.\n", argv[1]);
      return 2;
   }
   window(1, 1, 80, 25);
   directvideo = 0;
   clrscr();
   while(fgets(buf, 512, Read_in));
      cprintf(buf);
   fclose(Read_in);
   getch();
   return 0;
}
> ] Optimist: Says I'm not all bad when I'm not much good.......
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