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

ANSICON (source) seems to work fine for me...

• Put ansicon somewhere you intend to keep it...
• Run ANSICON -I
• Close the terminal
• Open a new one...