Editing Escape sequence (section)

===Use in DOS and Windows===
A utility, [[ANSI.SYS]],<ref>{{cite book
   |title=17. Understanding ANSI.SYS - Special Edition Using MS-DOS 6.22
   |url=https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/special-edition-using/0789725738/ch17.html}}</ref> can be used to enable the interpreting of the ANSI (ECMA-48) terminal escape sequences under [[DOS]] (by using <code>$e</code> in the [[PROMPT (DOS command)|PROMPT]] command) or in command windows in 16-bit [[Windows]].  The rise of [[GUI]] applications, which directly write to display cards, has greatly reduced the usage of escape sequences on Microsoft platforms, but they can still be used to create interactive random-access character-based screen interfaces with the character-based library routines such as [[printf]] without resorting to a GUI program.