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Ansi - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Ansi : American National Standard Institute (org., USA)
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Ansi : /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards
Institute. ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards
(ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&R, Classic C),
and promulgates many other important software standards. 2. n.
[techspeak] A terminal may be said to be `ANSI' if it meets the ANSI
X3.64 standard for terminal control. Unfortunately, this standard was
both over-complicated and too permissive. It has been retired and
replaced by the ECMA-48 standard, which shares both flaws. 3. n. [BBS
jargon] The set of screen-painting codes that most MS-DOS and Amiga
computers accept. This comes from the ANSI.SYS device driver that must
be loaded on an MS-DOS computer to view such codes. Unfortunately,
neither DOS ANSI nor the BBS ANSIs derived from it exactly match the
ANSI X3.64 terminal standard. For example, the ESC-[1m code turns on the
bold highlight on large machines, but in IBM PC/MS-DOS ANSI, it turns on
`intense' (bright) colors. Also, in BBS-land, the term `ANSI' is often
used to imply that a particular computer uses or can emulate the IBM
high-half character set from MS-DOS. Particular use depends on context.
Occasionally, the vanilla ASCII character set is used with the color
codes, but on BBSs, ANSI and `IBM characters' tend to go together.
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Ansi |
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