Re: Ada

From: Adrien Plisson (aplisson-news_at_stochastique.net)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:19:36 +0100

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> ANSI sequences are related to the terminal or terminal emulator,
> independent of the operating system. They work fine on VMS also.

they may also work in some particular situations under DOS/Windows.
you have to use command.com (not cmd.exe) with the ansi.sys driver
loaded. refer to microsoft documentation for how to do this.

note: on recents versions of Windows (NT/2000/XP) it could be tricky
to make it work... 

-- 
rien

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