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In article <i3BDwB1w165w@netlink.cts.com> mshapiro@netlink.cts.com (Michael Shapiro) writes:
>mjb@netcom.com (Martin Brown) writes:
>> I have ansi.sys installed, and have received some ansi msg's that seem to be
>> working.  Now that I want to do some ansi coding, I can't figure out how to
>> actually enter (which keys to push) the 'esc' part of the sequence.  I'm tryi
>> to do this at the command prompt.
>> 
>> Take for instance changing the screen background to blue.  The manual shows:
>> 
>>      ESC[44m
>> 
>He then asks how you can send an ANSI ESC sequence to the screen....

You can enter ansi sequences directly from the prompt by putting them
in the prompt :-)   That is, you can set an environment variable to tell
ms-dos (well, command.com, really :) what prompt to display - for example,

   prompt yes, mistress? 
or 
   set prompt=yes, mistress?

will cause ms-dos to display

   yes, mistress?

whenever it's waiting for you to tell it what to do. There are also 
some predefined codes you can use - like $p for the current path, or
$g for a greater-than, or $v for the os version, or $t for the time,
or $E for the ESCape character :)

The prompt I set on bootup is:

$e[0;60;"smartdrv /c";13p$e["{";"{"p$e[1;33mDOS! $e[32;40m$p$e[0;37m$g

This remaps F2 to flush smartdrv, remaps the curly brace (I was in 
product support and once in a blue moon someone would call about this
- so I packed my prompt with ready examples :) sets up high-intensity 
yellow, writes DOS! , then changes color to green, writes the current
drive/path, and changes to low-intensity white for the greater-than.

If you're using windows 3.1, you can have a different prompt when at
a prompt under windows by setting a winpmt variable. I have:

set winpmt=$e[1;32m[win] $e[36;40m$p$e[35m$g

F2 still works, btw - any key remappings stay til you cancel them.
Colors don't always return after starting another program, tho, so
it's useful to have them in the prompt.

You can also put escape keys into a file using edit or edlin. Naturally
I'm blanking on how to do it with edit, with edlin you enter ctrl characters
by using ctrl-v instead of ctrl-. Since esc is also ctrl-[, you'd enter
ctrl-v,[. To enter ctrl-c, it's ctrl-v,C (not ctrl-v,c).

Edit...enter ctrl-p, ESC; or ctrl-p, ctrl-[; or ctrl-p, alt-027.

-jen
 I'm not speaking for microsoft, I've just used DOS too much.