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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Escape codes and colors in AT+T SysV.
Message-ID: <1646@ctisbv.cti-software.nl>
Date: 8 Dec 89 15:28:44 GMT
References: <8@dynasys.UUCP> <1989Dec3.025200.26143@virtech.uucp> <4349@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <1989Dec6.051623.22169@chinet.chi.il.us>
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les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) 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.

The setcolor command in SCO Xenix does just that.
Unfortunately, the escape codes this program sends
are not understood by the System V/386 console driver.
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