TheDraw is a text editor for MS DOS to create ANSI and
animations as well as ASCII art. The editor is especially useful
to create or modify files in ANSI format and text documents,
which use the graphical characters of the IBM ASCII code pages,
because they are not supported by Microsoft Windows anymore. The
first version of the editor was developed in 1986 by Ian E.
Davis of TheSoft Programming Services. The last public version
of the editor was version 4.63, which was released in October
1993. TheDraw was one of the first ANSI editors that supported
ANSIs longer than 25 rows. The limit in the latest available
version is still 100 rows. Other editors, such as ACiDDraw are
able to support ANSIs larger than 100 lines for a single
ANSI/ASCII (ACiDDraw supports 1,000 lines). The animation mode
is limited to 50 lines (rows). The column width can be extended
from the standard 80 characters to 160, but this also reduces
the row limit down to 50. Compatibility with Microsoft Windows
The program runs stably in a DOS