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From: cjp@beartrk.beartrack.com (CJ Pilzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 4DOS Bugs?
Summary: Yellow is brown is not an error
Message-ID: <417@beartrk.beartrack.com>
Date: 1 Jul 90 08:09:51 GMT
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Organization: Bear Track Computer Co., Takoma Park, MD.
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In article <3171@phred.UUCP>, stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach) writes:
> Hello 4Dos Users,
>   I have noticed just a couple things with the new release 3.00
> and 3.01a.  The first one is I beleave a bug and that is in the
> color command, YELLOW on anycolor produces RED on anycolor.  Also
> anycolor on YELLOW produces anycolor on RED.  But BRIGHT YELLOW
> on anycolor does work. 

I don't think that this is an error.  The color "yellow" is low intensity
and is supposed to be brown.  Most of the time it looks like red.  To
get a real yellow, you have to have a high intensity yellow which you
get with the command "bright yellow".

-- cj