POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Colour consoles : Re: Colour consoles Server Time
7 Sep 2024 09:22:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Colour consoles  
From: Warp
Date: 20 Aug 2008 15:22:28
Message: <48ac6ef4@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> You *know* something's wrong when you find yourself envying people who 
> use Unix because it can emulate an obsolete VT100... o_O

> Basically, I have a perfectly working console application, but I wish I 
> could just make certain parts of its output come out in a different 
> colour. On Unix, this would be a fairly trivial matter of writing some 
> escape codes to stdout and you're done.

  AFAIK, the VT100 didn't support colors. That came with later versions
of VT.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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