From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,19d07d96f103778e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why do the escape sequences not work? References: <7f61ac7a48fbdc189d806643ca3043bb@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com> In-Reply-To: <7f61ac7a48fbdc189d806643ca3043bb@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1_C8d.3576$UP1.2238@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:54:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.143 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1097006077 63.184.105.143 (Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:54:37 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:54:37 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4751 Date: 2004-10-05T19:54:37+00:00 List-Id: GlesgaMick wrote: > ok, i ultimately solved the problem of ansi.sys not being allowed on WinME > by formatting and installing Win98... which i guess i will be using for > the duration of studying Ada... so much for the whole 'ada is great > because of its compatibilty' line. This has nothing to do with Ada. A C program that output ANSI escape sequences would give the same results. You could have taken an easier route by downloading and using the redirect program mentioned earlier, or by obtaining J. van Dijk's NT_Console package, which works with all flavors of Windows, but is not portable to other OSes. http://users.ncrvnet.nl/gmvdijk/packages.html -- Jeff Carter "We burst our pimples at you." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 16