[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 517231] Yes, the windows console can have colors too !

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------- Comment #4 from Damien Lespiau  2008-02-19 10:56 UTC -------
AFAIK, cmd.exe does not support VT100 escape sequences.

In the Old Good Days of command.com and the early days of cmd.exe (windows 95
and 98 I guess) you could use then. Since windows 2000, cmd.exe does not
support ANSI escape sequences, no matter if you put a DRIVER=ansi.sys in you
config.sys or not.

I've googled around and I can find some thingys about cmd.exe and colors:

* the color command that allows you to set a fg or bg color
* a property dialog that acts as a frontend to color
* the /A flag of cmd.exe that is said "to print ANSI characters", it's set by
default, still no escape sequence

Anyway, if someone is able to make ANSI escape sequences work with cmd.exe,
it's at least not enabled by default on my windows box. (see next screenshot)


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