OT: I Need Help From Windows Experts

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Fairlight wrote:

> 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?

I did some looking around this morning on this question, specifically on
Windows XP. It appears that Windows still includes an ANSI.SYS, and I
found instructions (by Googling) for installing it (for command.com, but
not for cmd.exe). However, my testing of that didn't work. Now I'm off to
other challenges...

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....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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