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Terminal codes used to vary widely, though there were a number of standard ones. Once terminals were built to respond to escape sequences, things became much more standardized. If you can find the information behind the old ANSI.SYS, you'll probably be in tall cotton.
Otherwise, building a shell isn't really that difficult. You can build in some commands and handle others by launching appropriate executables.
Giving it the ability to pipe will be dependent upon the underlying OS, though, generally.
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