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From: gordonc@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Cameron (RA DAI))
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Reverse Video in OW?
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.132038.4819@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Jun 91 13:20:38 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.163059.3966@ifi.unizh.ch>
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From article <1991Jun13.163059.3966@ifi.unizh.ch>, by sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz):
> In article <1991Jun11.180603.4197@sequent.com> battan@sequent.com writes:
>>In article <1991Jun5.133032.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu> peregrin writes:
>>
>>Still, I too would like to see options for shelltool/cmdtool to do
>>reverse video.
>>
>>"When there's a will, there's a way."
>>-- 
>>Jim Battan - Sequent Computer Systems
>>battan@sequent.com or uunet!sequent!battan
>>+1 503 578 5129
> 
> 
> Why not do a: shelltool -fg white -bg black
> 
> It works fine.
> 
All this is very well if you have a colour screen. However, if you have a
mono screen, the problem remains if you try to use shell/command tools..