From: huott AT pinebush DOT com (Ed Huott)
Subject: Re: console support under win32
27 Jan 1997 15:12:29 -0800
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In message <1 DOT 5 DOT 4 DOT 32 DOT 19970126002129 DOT 006736f4 AT earthlink DOT net>, bms AT earthlink DOT net 
writes:
>How about this, is there some whay to write a TERMCAP.DLL or TERMLIB.DLL or
>even incorporate some type of wrapper so that one could actually write/port
>such things as less etc... without having to have huge chunks of specialized
>i/o code in each program... Perhaps this has already been done....
>
>Bradley
>
It was my understanding that console ("DOS shell") windows are
supposed to obey standard ANSI escape sequences sent to stdout.  I
think this is the default behavior on NT.  Is may be possible on Win95
that you have to add a line like "DEVICE=ANSI.SYS" in a CONFIG.SYS
file or equivalent somewhere.  (This is what was needed on DOS
versions prior to Win95 at least.)

<ED>
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