ANSI

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ANSI, an acronym for American National Standards Institute, works in the development and uniform identification of standards[1]. In IT, ANSI is usually used to refer to the ANSI Codes. This is a list of numerical values that can control the colour, state, weight and so on of console fonts.

In the PXE boot environment, ANSI codes are:

Code	Description
0	reset all attributes to their defaults
1	set bold
4	set underscore (simulated with color on a color display)
5	set blink
7	set reverse video
22	set normal intensity
24	underline off
25	blink off
27	reverse video off
30	set black foreground
31	set red foreground
32	set green foreground
33	set brown foreground
34	set blue foreground
35	set magenta foreground
36	set cyan foreground
37	set white foreground
38	set underscore on, set default foreground color
39	set underscore off, set default foreground color
40	set black background
41	set red background
42	set green background
43	set brown background
44	set blue background
45	set magenta background
46	set cyan background
47	set white background
49	set default background color

 

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