TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: rberrypi
to: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
from: GRANT TAYLOR
date: 2021-02-12 22:11:00
subject: Re: LXTerm to accept ANSI

On 2/12/21 7:50 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> M$ Windows did not support ANSI codes until sometime in Win10
> (primarily to allow the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" to handle common
> terminal controls).

Um....

I used ANSI color codes a LONG time ago in MS-DOS and Windows 3.x, via
ANSI.SYS being loaded in CONFIG.SYS.  I naively assume that Windows 9x
and subsequent had comparable functionality.  Perhaps it wasn't enabled
by default.  But I would be shocked if it wasn't there.



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