A few older ones in here will probably remember a cute little proggie from DOS days, *hdir* it was called. Did nothing special, except show the file and directory listing in colour.  

(there were others that did the same thing, but I used this one, so remember its name).

Are there any such today which work under XP (long file names ?) ?

I know *ls* has a *--color* option, but the one I'm using from unixkit-tiny has some problems working under my shell, it just displays rubbish, i.e. I haven't been able to get it to work.

Example of rubbish:  

*←[0m←[01;34mafter←[0m ←[01;34mcolors←[0m ←[0mdiff.vim←[0m ←[01;34mdoc←[0m ←[01;34mftplugin←[0m ←[01;34mplugin←  

[0m ←[0mprogram.f90←[0m  

←[m"* 

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Not sure whether this should've been posted here or on SO. Not sure who it concerns more.