luislavena / win32console

Mirror of Win32::Console Gem project with improved MinGW support

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39bb29d5 » luislavena 2008-05-21 Initial import of win32cons... 1 This file implements a port of Perl's Win32::Console
2 and Win32::Console::ANSI modules.
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4 Win32::Console allows controling the windows command line terminal
5 thru an OO-interface. This allows you to query the terminal (find
6 its size, characters, attributes, etc). The interface and functionality
7 should be identical to Perl's.
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9 Win32::Console consists of a Ruby .rb interface.
10 For best performance, this library has been also ported to C.
11 If you lack a C compiler, you can still use the class thru the ruby
12 interface. If you can compile it, then the ruby interface is not
13 used and the C functions are called instead.
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15 Win32::Console::ANSI is a class derived from IO that seamlessly
16 translates ANSI Esc control character codes into Windows' command.exe
17 or cmd.exe equivalents.
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19 These modules allow you to develop command-line tools that can take
20 advantage of the unix terminal functions while still being portable.
21 One of the most common uses for this is to allow to color your
22 output.
23 The modules are disted with Term/ansicolor.rb, too, as it is a nice
24 thing to verify it is working properly.
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