How to recognize ansi color escape codes in Windows7 64 bit command terminal

Question

I have tried Ansicon and I still cannot get ansi escape sequences to become recognized and interpreted in my CMD.EXE command prompt on Windows 7 64 bit. Has anyone been able

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem today, and found a workaround.

The commandline utility Windows ANSI Color detects ANSI color codes and sets the corresponding console color.

Example:

myapp.bat | wac

where wac is the Windows ANSI color utility