From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2004-05-11T02:22:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?

On Sat, 8 May 2004, daz wrote:

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> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> > [...]  (And it would be even nicer if someone could provide me
> > with a way of getting the WinXP Command Prompt (cmd.exe) to
> > support ANSI colo(u)r.  It has been suggested that I modify
> > config.sys, but I can find no docs supporting that.
> > But this is off topic.)
> >
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> Thread is already [OT], let's party on :-)
>
OK :-)
> This isn't the most authorative-looking page I could find,
> but it appears correct.
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> http://www.o2post.com/kuban/ansi/ansi.htm
>

Googling further as a result suggests that config.nt replaces
config.sys, but putting device=%systemroot%system32\ansi.sys (or
similar) in there will only affect command.com, not the cmd.exe
command prompt.  A good summary of this seems to be

http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/818790

but most of it passes me by as I can't read the language, which
looks to me as though it is Dutch.

This lack of support in cmd.exe amazes me: PCs have supported colour
since the late 80's....  I could see nothing from Microsoft on the
topic, not even deprecating its use, for some reason.

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