OT: I Need Help From Windows Experts

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 04:14:32PM -0500, Kenneth Brody achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> 
> On Win95/98/Me, _if_ ansi.sys is loaded, you could probably use
> "ESC [ 7 m" and "ESC [ 0 m" for reverse on and off, respectively.
> 
> However, under NT (NT/2000/XP/2003), I don't know if there is any
> such sequence.  A quick test with "PROMPT=$E[7m$P$G$E[0m" causes
> the ESC to be rendered as a little left arrow, and not interpreted.
> Ditto for an "echo '\033[7m'" from my ksh for Windows.

There must be -some- way to do it.  How do they highlight the currently
selected option at the F8 boot selection screen?  No ansi.sys is loaded
at that point, so how are they doing it there?

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