Thanks for the help guys. Yes, the first response displays exactly my code. I forgot about the formatting tags so I couldn't get it to format, that's why I didn't type the entire script. Interestingly, I downloaded a 3rd party thing called "ansicon.dll" and installed it, now I can type text files that have those sequences in it and it displays color. However, the Perl code doesn't (whether I use Win32::Console::ANSI or not). Even more strange, the alternate way of setting screen attributes using Win32::Console does work. 
my $console_handle = Win32::Console->new(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE());
$console_handle->Attr($FG_CYAN);
print "Multi-Edit 2008\n";
$console_handle->Attr($FG_WHITE);
print "Normal text again\n";

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The code above does work, and it displays cyan text and then bright white text. Why the ANSI codes stopped working is beyond me. It could have something to do with a Windows 8.1 update that made it stop working?

In reply to Re: Win32::Console::ANSI not working by bobt_2004
in thread Win32::Console::ANSI not working by bobt_2004

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