Comment by doodpants

One thing I've been wondering for a long time (and my Google-fu is apparently too weak to find on my own): how do certain console applications change the output color without inserting ANSI escape sequences into the output stream? The specific case I have in mind is when writing console programs in C#/.NET, and using the System.Console.ForegroundColor property to vary output colors on the fly. The resulting output text does not have ANSI escape characters in it, yet the colors are displayed properly in the terminal.