> Phil Eisermann wrote:
> >
> > >Anybody know how to place the text in a Visual C console app
> console?
> >
> > you need to install some sort of ANSI terminal emulator.
>
> Well, yes, I could squirt chars out to a serial port,
> through a serial cable, back into another serial port which
> is used by an ANSI terminal emulator program which handles escape
> sequences as desired.
>
> [snip]
>
> no, no. that's not what i meant. When i said "terminal emulator", i
> meant
> that Windows requires the use of a program to emulate an
> ANSI-terminal.
>
> there is a program called "nansi.sys" that is just such a
> terminal-emulation
> program (which i have played with). Windows and DOS probably come with
> their own version, too. try searching your windows directory for a
> file called
> "ansi.sys"
>
> once you have found this program, you must tell windows to use it by
> placing it into config.sys.
>
> sorry for the confusion.
>
> include these terminal emulation programs