On 2007-07-30, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:30:22 -0700, CC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> >> Yeah, with this I'm not that concerned about Windows. Though, can WinXP >> still load the ansi.sys driver? >> > I'm actually not sure... > > I think if one uses the 16-bit command parser it is available, but > not the 32-bit parser... > > command.com vs cmd.exe
Yes. You can load the ansi.sys driver in command.com on Windows 2000 and XP, and it will work with simply batch files. But it doesn't work with Python, for reasons I don't know enough about Windows console programs to understand. -- Neil Cerutti The audience is asked to remain seated until the end of the recession. --Church Bulletin Blooper -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list