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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
  2. From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!chrism.demon.co.uk!chris
  4. Subject: Re: ANSI terminal emulation in console? 
  5. Distribution: world
  6. References: <1992Dec18.095040.4624@titan.ksc.nasa.gov>
  7. Organization: None
  8. Reply-To: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk
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  11. Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:39:46 +0000
  12. Message-ID: <724711186snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>
  13. Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
  14.  
  15. In article <1992Dec18.095040.4624@titan.ksc.nasa.gov> rushing@titan.ksc.nasa.gov writes:
  16.  
  17. >Is there any way to get ANSI terminal emulation in a console
  18. >window?  There's a file 'ansi.sys' in the nt/system dir, but 
  19. >sticking that into the config.sys file doesn't seem to do anything.
  20. >The console API sample app doesn't mention anything about
  21. >it either.
  22. >
  23. >-Sam Rushing
  24. >rushing@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
  25. >
  26.  
  27. No - Microsoft say that not including ANSI escape sequence support in
  28. Console windows was a deliberate design decision, made for the sake of
  29. performance.  However, ANSI support MAY appear in the retail.
  30. Note, however, that you have all the low-level stuff you need - moving
  31. the cursor, etc - so "rolling your own" shouldn't be too hard a job.
  32.  
  33. Chris
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