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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WHat happened to Norton's SA?
Message-ID: <1115@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 03:40:10 GMT
References: <21760@hodge.UUCP>
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In article <21760@hodge.UUCP>, jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm) writes:
> 
> 	I just happened to notice that the SA (Screen Attributes)
> 	program, which was present in every version of the Norton
> 	Utilities up to and including 4.0, is missing from 4.5!
> 
> 	Why was SA removed from distribution?

It sort of wasn't removed. 

For some reason (I can't figure out why) they decided that the SA command
was batch file enhancement command and therefore they decided to 
include the support for the command in the BE command.

The current usage is the same as the previous usage with the 
exception that it is preceded by a BE as follows:

	BE SA [bright|bold|Underline] foreground [ON background]

The only possible reason that I can think of is that the distribution
diskette space was getting real tight so they combined the commands
to reduce the amount of disk space used up.  I haven't reviewed my
diskettes to see if this is true so who knows (or really cares).


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