Windows 2000 cmd terminal color

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I'd like to be able to print out certain status codes in the color red in order to make them stand out. I am running Windows 2000 & Windows NT. I've tried Term::ANSIColor, but it only prints out the escape sequences and no color is displayed. I've searched microsoft's developer site, but i cannot seem to find any way to change the WinNT/2K terminal's colors programmatically! I know you could do it in DOS by loading & calling ANSI.SYS, however that was a DOS driver and does not work under NT.

Does anyone know how to display colored text under WinNT/2K using Perl?

Thanx,

Rob

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Re: Windows 2000 cmd terminal color by Trinary (Pilgrim) on Apr 27, 2001 at 02:16 UTC
My first guess would be Win32::Console (standard in Activestate). From what I can see in the docs, you or together a bunch of attribute flags if you want special attibs on your output, and this includes some color support. Hope this helps... Trinary	[reply]
Re: Windows 2000 cmd terminal color by rchiav (Deacon) on Apr 27, 2001 at 03:00 UTC
Or, if want to directly modify the colors through the console, type color /?. Rich	[reply]