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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Why do the escape sequences not work?
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Date: 2004-10-02T15:34:02+01:00

Windows ceased supporting ANSI escape sequences around 2000.

However the old COMMAND.COM of MS-DOS 5 is usually shipped along with 
the new systems. It is not the default console (that is CMD), but it's 
there, even in the PATH. You can invoke COMMAND from CMD.

See also:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;101875#appliesto
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/14818/14818.html