Update a comment.

Update a URL, raise questions about *which* escape sequences give you
24-bit color on Windows.

Change-Id: Ic88e29de1049824210be2857b75409a5ffa1585e
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/32624
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/epan/print_stream.c b/epan/print_stream.c
index 5d06858277..d8193cca5f 100644
--- a/epan/print_stream.c
+++ b/epan/print_stream.c
@@ -72,12 +72,27 @@ print_color_escape(FILE *fh, const color_t *fg, const color_t *bg)
      *
      *  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences
      *
-     * documents all the escape sequences the Console supports.
+     * documents all the escape sequences the Console supports.  The current
+     * version says that 24-bit color is supported using Operating System
+     * Command (OSC) control sequences and that the ODA versions with 24-bit
+     * color are supported but select the closest color from the 16-color
+     * palette.
      *
      * The console in Windows 10 builds 14931 (a preview version of Windows 10
      * version 1703) and later supports SGR RGB sequences:
      *
-     *	https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/09/22/24-bit-color-in-the-windows-console/
+     *	https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/24-bit-color-in-the-windows-console/
+     *
+     * That page says:
+     *
+     *   Thanks to our ability to run Linux apps and scripts using our new
+     *   Bash on Ubuntu on Windows environment atop the Windows Subsystem
+     *   for Linux (WSL), we can use some Linux scripts and tools to
+     *   demonstrate the Console's new 24-bit color support:
+     *
+     * which suggests that, with that version, whatever escape sequences
+     * work on UN*Xes also work on Windows, so maybe they support full
+     * 24-bit color with the ODA versions.
      *
      * We might want to print those instead depending on the version of
      * Windows or just remove the SetConsoleTextAttribute calls and only