Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!zephyr.texoma.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.108.254.29!nntp.teleport.com!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules Subject: ANNOUNCE: Term::ANSIColor 0.09 available Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.modules Date: 17 Feb 1997 14:26:26 GMT Organization: The Eyrie Lines: 27 Sender: news-merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <5e9pqi$68a$1@nadine.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:105 comp.lang.perl.modules:1745 Term::ANSIColor 0.09 has been uploaded to PAUSE and should be available from CPAN shortly. From the README: While ANSI color escape codes are fairly simple, it can be hard to remember the codes for all of the attributes and the code resulting from hard-coding them into your script is definitely difficult to read. This module is designed to fix those problems, as well as provide a convenient interface to do a few things for you automatically (like resetting attributes after the text you print out so that you don't accidentally leave attributes set). Despite its name, this module can also handle non-color ANSI text attributes (bold, underline, reverse video, and blink). It exports either of two interfaces, one of which uses "constants" for each different attribute and the other of which uses two subs that take strings of attributes as arguments. Although this should be considered a beta release, the module is fairly straightforward and relatively well-tested; I don't anticipate it changing much, if at all. Comments, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome. -- Russ Allbery (rra@cs.stanford.edu) .