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From: linwood@cbnewsk.att.com (linwood.d.johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Screen border colors
Summary: Use be sa with nu 4.5 and up
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.211343.6451@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 21:13:43 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.023220.20459@uwasa.fi> <1990Oct11.005239.1874@nmt.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> > In article <10835@hubcap.clemson.edu> chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) (the original poster) writes:
> >>How do you set the color of the border on an IBM PC screen ??
> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) said:
> > 
> > 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. 
And jrwsnsr@nmt.edu (Jonathan Watts) said:
> 
> 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.

  Well people - I have only one thing to add to that.
  
  With the Not so new Norton Utilities (version 4.5 and greater) the sa command
  and a couple of others were all lumped together into BE (Batch Enhancer).

  I believe that the syntax is basically the same though:
		be sa [intensity] [foreground] on [background]; 
		or be sa ? for help.


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