in reply to Re: Word Colors
in thread Word Colors

Windows NT, 2000 and possibly XP do *not* do ANSI color even if you load ansi.sys. If you really need colored text in a "command" window then you have several choices... cygwin or find a way to make BIOS calls from within Perl. I haven't tried the second one but it sure sounds like fun! :) Uh, oh... now I'm gonna have to try.

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Re: Re: Re: Word Colors
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 12, 2002 at 11:55 UTC
    You CAN use colors in a DOS box under NT4 or Windows 2000. You have to load system32/ansi.sys in config.nt and use command.com instead of cmd.exe as shell. Unfortunately running perl in such a color DOS box still won't color its output - i think perl uses cmd.exe. How can perl be persuaded to use command.com instead ?
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