Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ANSI.SYS

ANSI.SYS was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to KEEP the article.

DOS driver. Should this be deleted or merged? - Ta bu shi da yu 03:33, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Note: I've expanded the ANSI.SYS article. [[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 17:29, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Keep substub on a valid subject. I at least remember what it is.  Smerdis of Tlön 04:46, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, but i'd prefer a merge somewhere. &mdash; siro  &chi;  o  04:59, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * keep/merge. Valid article. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 12:22, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. And improve, I'm sure people will search for this. bbx 12:26, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, unless someone can come up with a good idea where to merge ("merge somewhere" seems to be a bit of a cop-out :P) -- Ferkelparade &pi; 13:26, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep in present form. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 18:16, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Not ANSI (graphics) since that is misleading. If you have to do it, go for the official designation: ANSI X3.64 (it's an extention to ASCII), hmm, and see also TUI. But really I think this article has enough content to stand on it's own? So probably just Keep it. Kim Bruning 13:32, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Microsoft's implementation of ANSI.SYS on MSDOS, while based on ANSI X3.64, had many proprietary extensions and was not used in the same way that say a VT-100 terminal used or interpreted the X3 committees proposed standard. I am naturally expanding this article from a DOS POV as there are so many interesting footnotes to explore.  This is why I vote keep, with no redirect, to retain clarity. [[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 17:29, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve. --Gene s 15:32, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep--Josiah 22:04, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. [[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 23:47, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to ANSI (graphics). ANSI.SYS is just one device driver among many thousands, and is not particularly notable. Psychonaut 23:08, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I suspect that ANSI (graphics) might end up being redundant to ANSI art; if a place to merge or redirect is the decision, that might be the place. Smerdis of Tlön 15:50, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * merge/redirect to somewhere. Failing that, keep. Seems to be a valid substub. jni 07:02, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect/Merge to ANSI (graphics), which should have the mainstream ANSI article point to it and have some info from there merged too. Info on the driver itself and how to load it is uninteresting, especially given that other operating systems support ANSI without that driver. I will be happy to do massive rewrites on this article once its fate is decided. --Improv 19:10, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have added a bit more information to the page. Smerdis of Tlön 15:42, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete: Geekcruft. Vacuum | tcw 01:10, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Please define Geekcruft? Kim Bruning 16:16, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Just as an aside, if anyone goes like "yeah well, three votes for ANSI (graphics) and one vote for ANSI X3.64 so we go to ANSI (graphics)." Um yeah well, you already knew that wasn't correct, right? (just checking :-) ) Kim Bruning 16:20, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * It is very widely known as ANSI graphics. Sometimes the official standards bodies don't matter, when the popular tide is enough against them (as it is for the meaning of kilobyte, for example) --Improv 19:52, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * A kilobyte is 1024 bytes? Did this change anytime in the past half century that I'm not aware of? Kim Bruning 20:00, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * There are people who are inventing other terms, like kibibyte, to handle the traditional meaning of kilobyte (1024 bytes), so they can reclaim the tern kilobyte for 1000 bytes. *sigh* --Improv 20:18, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * It was never so before though, and they're having a heck of a time changing it, eh? :-) Kim Bruning 21:10, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Keep. -Fennec (&#12399;&#12373;&#12400;&#12367;&#12398;&#12365;&#12388;&#12397;) 16:48, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep as it now stands. GRider 21:55, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve. There's enough information about ANSI-bombs that should stay here. Giles Robertson 23:49 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Verifiable and factually accurate -- [[User:OldakQuill|Oldak Quill]] 23:57, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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