in reply to color text output in Windows

I believe you can enable ANSI control characters in Windows consoles by adding:
device=%SystemRoot%\system32\ansi.sys
to your %SystemRoot%\system32\CONFIG.NT file.

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Re: Re: color text output in Windows
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 05, 2003 at 17:27 UTC

    No, unfortunately you can't. ansi.sys is a 16-but windows drivers. I only works in command.com sessions not cmd.exe sessions. Using command.com as your console shell is pointless.


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