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People have been asking about programming ANSI escape sequences..

Well, I've got a copy of the (Free with PC Magazine) 212 Power DOS Tips! :-)

Page 61 says exactly what everyone else is saying: No Can Do From DOS.
If you are in an editor (but not all editors - Edit or Wordstar had been
tested, and I would guess any ASCII editor would do) "ESC" is entered as
"CTRL-P ESC", and displayed as "^[". Therefor "ESC[2J" (Clear Screen) is
entered as "CTRL-P[2J", and displayed as "^[[2J".

They give a solution to this (Page 62):

	Often, a small utility program is convinient when creating
	ANSI sequences in batch jobs. ANSAY is just such a program
	and can be created as follows:

	COPY con temp.hex
	:100100008A0E800081E17F007416497413BB82005F
	:100110008A174380FA247502B21BB406CD21E2F09F
	:10012000B8004CCD210000000000000000000000DD
	:00000001FF
	<F6>
	Debug temp.hex
	r cx
	25
	n ANSAY.COM
	w
	q

	The part up to <F6> (designating that the F6 key be pressed)
	creates a hexidecimal file, and the debug part turns this
	HEX file into ANSAY.COM
	Ansay.com is a program which behaves exactly like the Echo,
	but turns every occurance of the '$' character into an
	escape. Batch jobs containibg Ansay commands can be written
	with any editor, and can be printed.

This means that the example above (Clear Screen) is:

	ansay $[2J

They also give ways of using EDLIN and DEBUG to write short scripts that
can be 'TYPE'd to feed ansi commands to the console, but I don't think
that that is what you are after.

Hope this helps one and all - And may '93 be a colourfull year (and please
don't Drink And Drive!)

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