term, a tcllib package, facilities interaction with and manipulation of character terminals. Currently, all facilities are provided in daughter packages. See [L1 ] for a list.
MHo 2008-02-25: What about a package like perl's Win32::Console::ANSI? Without that, the whole term package could unfortunately not be used under Microsoft Windows, because Windows is too dumb to interpret simple ANSI sequences in console mode[L2 ].