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- DOCUMENT:Q100394 06-JAN-1994 [W_NT]
- TITLE :INF: How to Use ANSI.SYS in Windows NT
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
-
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- You can make use of ANSI.SYS under Windows NT, but you must run COMMAND.COM
- from Microsoft MS-DOS version 5.0 to do so; the Windows NT command
- interpreter, CMD.EXE, does not support ANSI.SYS. To use ANSI.SYS, do the
- following:
-
- NOTE: You can add ANSI.SYS to a specific program by modifying its
- program information file (PIF). To install ANSI.SYS in your default
- command prompt configuration, do the following:
-
- 1. Add the following line to the CONFIG.NT file located in the
- SYSTEM32 subdirectory:
-
- DEVICE=%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\ANSI.SYS
-
- 2. Exit any command prompts you have open.
-
- 3. Start a command prompt.
-
- 4. Run COMMAND.COM from MS-DOS 5.0. Use the following command to make
- sure you are running MS-DOS 5.0 COMMAND.COM and not the Windows NT
- version:
-
- c:\dos\command.com
-
- You should now be able to use ANSI.SYS. To test it, try entering the
- following escape sequence with the PROMPT command:
-
- prompt $e[31;42m
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10
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- KBSubCategory: 16ap
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