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From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Escape codes and colors in AT+T SysV.
Message-ID: <949@fiver.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 10:16:06 GMT
References: <1989Dec6.051623.22169@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Fiver Communications  Fremont, Ca
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From article <1989Dec6.051623.22169@chinet.chi.il.us>, by les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell):
> In article <4349@cuuxb.ATT.COM> migh@cuuxb.UUCP (Mike Hall) writes:
> 
> But it still doesn't solve the problem that the resulting display is
> exceedingly ugly.  Only the printed characters get the new background
> color while the right-hand side of the screen remains black.  Is there
> any way to make all of the screen which is normally black some other
> color?  White-on-blue is much nicer than the standard ega/vga text.

  Well if you have Simul-task on a system I found out you can use a 
dos program to set the pallet and character colors. When it returns 
to unix they stay that way. All the unix program I run do not reset the
color. This works with vga and some pd program I have called vpt.
The vpt program does r-g-b color mixing so you can create your own 
color mixture for the forground and background, save it in a file
and call it up. I don't know if this works for ega screens.

---Bob

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