"Tim Golden" <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote in message
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Alan Gauld wrote:
"Tim Golden" <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote
No. ANSI escapes don't work on Windows.
Wouldn't the ANSI codes work if ANSI.SYS were loaded?
I thought you could still load ANSI.SYS it just wasn't normally there?
The help system says you should load it in config.nt with:
device=c:\winnt\system32\ansi.sys But I admit I've never tried it - I
didn't even like ANSI.SYS when I was using DOS!
(from memory). I'm fairly sure that even that
no longer works. When this question last came
up I think we went round that loop and discovered
that it didn't. Happy to be wrong. :)
That still works, but it only ever worked for command.com (the 16-bit
command interpreter that still comes with Windows XP). A 16-bit DOS program
or a batch file explicitly run under command.com can still use ANSI excapes.
-Mark
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