OT: Windows Console Inverse

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Jan 23 09:50:46 PST 2006


This public service announcement was brought to you by Kenneth Brody:
> 
> It appears that the Win32::Console module is something that loads an
> ansi emulator into the Perl environment, and that Perl itself is
> handling the emulation internally.

One of the few cases where I didn't care how it did it, I just cared that
it worked.  :)  Windows itself is a Black Box[tm] to me, so I just worry
about achieving the results consistently.

> As long as Bob is writing his script in Perl, that may be a viable
> solution.  Of course, if he's not using Perl, then this whole part of
> the thread becomes moot.

Bob said he was moving an awk script to perl, if I remember the original
post correctly, so it shouldn't be moot at all.

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