I would only add ( from Win32::Console::ANSI perldoc )

Windows NT/2000/XP does not support ANSI escape sequences in Win32 Con
+sole applications. 
This module emulates an ANSI console for the script which uses it.
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Update: This indeed does work under Win2K and AS 5.8 Perl and gellyfish proved it to me. I had previously used PPM to download this and then ran the example with NO luck. gellyfish sent me a screenshot proving otherwise, so I downloaded and built this module which worked as advertised! I will be very careful about just assuming that any module installed via PPM is guaranteed to work.