From: huott@pinebush.com (Ed Huott) Subject: Re: console support under win32 27 Jan 1997 15:12:29 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701271701.MAA15885.cygnus.gnu-win32@sol.pinebush.com> Original-To: bms@earthlink.net Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Jan 1997 19:21:29 EST." <1.5.4.32.19970126002129.006736f4@earthlink.net> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com In message <1.5.4.32.19970126002129.006736f4@earthlink.net>, bms@earthlink.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.) - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".