From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c8bf7bc76e8609e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.newsland.it!nntp.eutelia.it!skynet.be!newspost001!tjb!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:19:36 +0100 From: Adrien Plisson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, fr-be, fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada References: <1106770009.493447.308200@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <41f8ce49$0$545$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Organization: -= Belgacom Usenet Service =- NNTP-Posting-Host: fb026a9b.news.skynet.be X-Trace: 1106824777 news.skynet.be 545 81.243.63.120:4676 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@skynet.be Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8012 Date: 2005-01-27T12:19:36+01:00 List-Id: 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