my $can_color = 0;
eval {
  require Term::ANSIColor; 
};
unless ($@) {
  ## I tried these next two lines but it does NOT seem to work (complains about the constants not being defined)...
  Term::ANSIColor->import();
  Term::ANSIColor->import(qw(:constants));

  $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1;
  $can_color = 1 
}