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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: DOS colors
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.100600.376@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 28 Feb 91 08:06:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.051313.2881@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <1991Feb25.051313.2881@wpi.WPI.EDU>, jhall@wpi.WPI.EDU (John Clinton Hall) writes:
> 
> How do I change the color DOS uses to print with INT 21/40?  There must be a
> way to do it.  Norton's Screen Attributes does it.

No.  The version of SA I've seen changes the _border_ color and sends an ansi
escape sequence to the console driver for the rest.  Try "sa ... > codes".
If you want to know how the ansi console driver changes the colors, you can
easily find one of the improved drivers (zansi, nansi, nnansi, ...), of
which some are available with the asm source files.

Better yet, check the well known interupt list.  
(at Simtel20: PD1:<MSDOS.INFO>INTER###.ZIP)

Markus Fischer, Dpt. of Anthropology, Geneva CH