John,

Perhaps this will help:

http://www.computing.net/answers/programming/ansi-codes/16123.html

\\Greg



On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, john s wolter <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I have an old application that ran from [floppy|diskette] disk and I'm
> moving to an Win XP sp3 & updated on a Laptop.  Using a binary editor I've
> found ANSI.SYS is quite old.   It's dated 1985.
>
> The program uses character mode for simple line menus with the ability to
> use the up-down arrows to select a line and then [Enter] to choose one.
>  ANSI.SYS emulates ANSI terminal escape, [ESC-codes] for controlling screen
> behavior from the application.
>
> Within the normal command.com environment under Win XP I see the
> escape-sequences displayed as characters.  There not routed to ANSI.SYS for
> interpretation and display.  Getting ANSI.SYS running working is necessary.
>
> I'm wondering how VirtualBox would handle ANSI.SYS and how I should setup
> for correct operation.
>
> - jsw
>
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