From: Thomas Chust <chust@...>
Date: 2009-08-07T02:57:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Change console forground to Red or Green

2009/8/6 Laup-Dawg <adamlauper@gmail.com>:
> [...]
> This is what I saw in the window's command window after running the
> script.
>
> "The test ←[31mFailed←[0m"
>
> The foreground color didn't change to red, it remained the default.
> [...]

Hello,

as Gordon Thiesfeld already mentioned in this thread, the Windows
console doesn't support ANSI escape sequences natively and that the
win32console gem could be useful to emulate such functionality. The
output you see includes the uninterpreted escape sequences verbatim --
so it actually looks "right" in a certain sense ;-)

I faintly remember that in the DOS and Windows 95 days you also had
the option to load a driver that globally taught the console to
display ANSI escapes, but I have no idea whether something similar is
still available for modern Windows systems. I haven't touched a
Windows box in ages, so I don't have any hands-on experience in this
area.

cu,
Thomas


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