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From: jrwsnsr@nmt.edu (Jonathan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Screen border colors
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.005239.1874@nmt.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 00:52:39 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.023220.20459@uwasa.fi>
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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From article <1990Oct9.023220.20459@uwasa.fi>, by ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi):
> In article <10835@hubcap.clemson.edu> chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) writes:
>>How do you set the color of the border on an IBM PC screen ??
>>The DOS prompt command changes the main portion of the screen,
>>but leaves a blank border around on the outside. I know this can
>>be done because some software leaves the border the same color as
>>the rest of the screen when finished execution. 
>>
>>Is there an escape code that can be tacked on the prompt command,
>>or some program that can set the border ???
> 
> This is a feature of CGA and VGA graphics.  
> 
> If you know how to write a simple program in Turbo Pascal there is a
> preprogrammed routine for changing the border color in the
> /pc/ts/tspas22.arc Turbo Pascal units collection available by
> anonymous ftp or mail server from chyde.uwasa.fi. 

You can also use the Norton Utilities "sa" program to change the border.
"sa [intensity] [foreground] on [background]" is the normal way to use sa,
with a /N parameter if you don't wish to change the border as well as the
background.  However, I discovered, purely by accident, that "sa on
[background] >NUL" will change the border color, and only the border color.
 
  - Jonathan Watts
 
jrwsnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu (Internet address)