ls --color on windows 2000

Michael A Chase mchase@ix.netcom.com
Thu Nov 7 07:05:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:45:04 -0300 Nelson Teixeira <nt777@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any means of making ls --color work on windows 2k ? As far as I 
> know ME+ OSs from MS removed ANSI color support. How can I overcome this? 
> is there any replacement for cmd.exe or ansi.sys that I can use on windows 
> 2k to make this work ?

What happens when you try it?  I've used it under WinXP in a normal console
window and the colors appeared as expected.  I don't use rxvt, but that is
another possibility.

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