Use in DOS and Windows A utility, ANSI.SYS, can be used to enable the interpreting of the ANSI (ECMA-48) terminal escape sequences under DOS (by using $e in the PROMPT command) or in command windows in 16-bit Windows. The rise of GUI applications, which directly write to display cards, has greatly reduced the usage of escape sequences on Microsoft platforms, but they can still be used to create interactive random-access character-based screen interfaces with the character-based library routines such as printf without resorting to a GUI program.
use in dos and windows a utility ansisys can be used to enable the interpreting of the ansi (ecma-48) terminal escape sequences under dos (by using $e in the prompt command) or in command windows in 16-bit windows the rise of gui applications which directly write to display cards has greatly reduced the usage of escape sequences on microsoft platforms but they can still be used to create interactive random-access character-based screen interfaces with the character-based library routines such as printf without resorting to a gui program