[Tutor] Blinking Characters

[Alan Gauld]

> Is it possible to have blinking character in window's DOS prompt? In
> C/C++ it is called as text attributes, and you can change the
> foreground and background colors also along with the blinking
> property of the character.

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

As a result it responds to all the ANSI comand sequences, 
thus just print the commands for blinking characters to 
stdout and it will respond, same goes for colours, 
character sizes etc.

Try searching the web for "ANSI terminal" and you should find 
what you need, you can test them in a DOS box using the 
DOS "ECHO" command. It used to be common practice pre windows 
to customise your DOS prompt using fancy ANSI sequences.

Alan G.

PS. I found this site:

http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm