in reply to GUI module for Windows/Linux

If you fancy the ncurses style route, then look at Term::ANSIColour and Term::ANSIScreen.

Win32 doesn't support ANSI sequences directly, but by loading Win32::Console::ANSI on that platform anything you do with the above two modules will work there.

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