Greetings again, fellow monks. The more I use Perl, the more questions I have... But this can only be a good thing! Today on the Perl Advent Calender the featured module is Term::ANSIColor. Of course, this sounded like a great idea to me, and I immediately wanted to try it out. Unfortunately, the output yielded color codes, rather than actual colors. :-( This is really more of a Windows question than a Perl question, but it never hurts to ask. How can I get this module to work for me on my work laptop? Do I need a 3rd-party term window with ANSI support, or is there some way to get the cmd prompt to handle color codes?

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In reply to Term::ANSIColor in a Win2K cmd window? by wolfger

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