On 27/02/2019 18:28, Chip Wachob wrote: > Windows 7 vintage machine this morning.
Caveat: I have no direct experience on Windows 7 - I jumped from XP to Windows 8... Also I haven't used ANSIO codes in Windows since the heady days of Windows 98! But... > run in the command window in Windows, from the terminal in Linux... Be aware that ANSI codes in DOS don't correspond directly with the VT100 control codes commonly used in Linux etc. You might get some things that either don;t work or work slightly differently. > In the code I had included the ANSI escape characters so I could invert the > text and change the color. Again remember that old ANSI terminals didn't have colors. (They were either green on black, white on black, or if you were really fancy, amber on black). Color came later so some terminal emulators won't do anything with those codes. > As I have now learned, Windows 7 does not support this functionality. > What do the experts out there suggest as the path of least pain and > suffering? No idea if this works on Windows 7 but what we used to have to do was load the ANSI.SYS driver in the CONFIG.SYS file located in the root directory of the boot drive. A quick Google suggests that Windows supports config.nt as a replacement for CONFIG.SYS. Try creating such a file (or editing the existing one) with the line DEVICE=ANSI.SYS And see if that helps. (You might need a reboot or at least a restart of the console) Also it seems that the 32 bit version of ANSI.SYS does not support cursor positioning. But if you only want bold/flashing/underlined text in differing colors you should be OK... -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
