Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxqq.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!bellcore!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxqq!ral From: ral@pyuxqq.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Reply to Tim Thomas query about ansi.sys and colors in simterm Message-ID: <701@pyuxqq.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 18:34:03 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxqq.701 Posted: Mon Apr 1 18:34:03 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Apr-85 13:54:09 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 97 Tim Thomas: my mail response to your letter was not deliverable. > I read an articles you posted to net.micro.pc about using simterm. I cant > help you with your problem, but I was wondering if you could help me with > mine. How do you use the ansi.sys driver? I have tried many different > ways but cant get it to work. I tried putting it in the config.sys file, > but to no avail. (i may have done that wrong though). Any help you could > give me would be greatly appreciated. > > Tim Thomas ================================================================================ Here's how I've set up the ansi.sys device driver. I have a PC/AT with hard disk (c:) on which I have copied the files from the DOS disk and supplemental programs DOS disk to the subdirectories c:\dos and c:\dosx, respectively. (You'll notice that I have PATH set to pick up commands from these directories.) In particular, the device drivers ansi.sys and vdisk.sys are in the c:\dos directory. I don't see a way to use the SHELL=... command to avoid putting command.com in the root directory (I would prefer keeping it in c:\dos). Refer to page 2-14 of the DOS Technical Reference Version 3.0 for definition of escape sequences for changing foreground and background colors. For example, with these codes: 30 black foreground 31 red foreground 32 green foreground 33 yellow foreground 34 blue foreground ... 40 black background ... 43 yellow background ... 47 white background The sequence ESC[33;40m sets yellow foreground on black background (ESC is escape character). Here are the listings of my config.sys and autoexec.bat: config.sys: break=on buffers=10 country=001 device=c:\dos\ansi.sys lastdrive=c autoexec.bat PATH c:\dos;c:\dosx;.;c:\;c:\bin;c:\ctools prompt $e[33;40m prompt $p$g cd sidekick sk cd .. Notice that prompt expands $e to an ESC character. Here's a partial listing of the root directory: Volume in drive C has no label Directory of C:\ TMP 2-26-85 5:47p DOSX 2-26-85 11:23a COMMAND COM 22042 8-14-84 8:00a CONFIG SYS 73 3-27-85 1:52p AUTOEXEC BAT 101 3-27-85 2:13p BIN 2-04-85 5:21p DIAG 2-13-85 9:19a DOS 2-14-85 4:21p Jim Holtman responded to my note about not being able to set colors in simterm. The reason is that simterm uses direct calls to the BIOS instead of DOS calls, thereby circumventing any ansi.sys commands that may have been executed. He's looking at a way to set colors in simterm, he says. Also, Bruce McLaud informed me that there is a limited capability for turning on colors in simterm. Type echo '\033&d?\c' where ? is H for green on black, B or C for black on white, D, E, F, or G for blue on black, or H, I, J, K for green on black. I hope the above is enough to get you going. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Levenberg Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) 3 Corporate Place Room 2C-315 Piscataway, NJ 08854 (201) 981-6178 ..!allegra!pyuxqq!ral