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| From: | P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia |
| Subject: | Re: [Groff] SGR escape sequences as tty default: A faux pas. |
| Date: | Sat, 09 Mar 2002 08:05:02 -0500 |
At 05:30 p.m. 08/03/2002 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Strange. Good-old MS-DOS came with ANSI.SYS which enabled color support on the console with SGR escapes. Is it possible that the win32 console doesn't support this? This would imply that MS-DOS is better than win32...
Yup. Unfortunately Win2k/XP/ME do not support real mode drivers anymore (that's the future of MS products, I'm afraid). The replacement for ansi.sys that works in protected memory mode (ansi.com) is more difficult to find than a white elephant, and caused some instability in my system because it isn't a 32-bit executable (at least the copy I found).
-- Alejandro López-Valencia http://dradul.tripod.com/ [...] every cultured man is a theologian, and to be so faith isn't needed. (J.L. Borges)
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