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coloring Windows XP cmd.exe

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Mar 15, 20269311 views

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I love the Linux console, but due to many reasons have to work under Windows XP. So now I decided to make it look better but couldn't find any documentation/posts about it. Is it possible at all?

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You can't do that because the way the Windows console works is fundamentally different from the Linux terminal. On Linux the coloring is done using ANSI escape sequences. From Wikipedia: ANSI escape sequences are characters embedded in the text used…

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coloring Windows XP cmd.exe

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Fix for: coloring Windows XP cmd.exe

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