[Tutor] Re: Blinking Characters

[Alan Gauld]

Ok, I did a bit more digging...

>   | Sure the DOS box is a standard ANSI terminal (once you load 
>   | ANSI.SYS).

Apparently only works with a DOS 5.0 DOS box, the NT/XP CMD box 
doesn't do ANSI... :-(

Full details in MS Knowlege Base article KB100394

>   | Try searching the Windows Help for for "ANSI.SYS

And you get several KB articles including the supported codes.

However unless you have DOS 5 on board they won't help, sorry.

There is a version of curses for DOS but its not part of 
official python, and of course you get curses with cygwin
and its version of ppython.

Alan G.