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From: chuck@drutx.UUCP (MillerCA)
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Subject: change colors in dos
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 15:31:19 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 15:31:19 1985
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> 
> I have a Zenith 150 and was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way
> to change the color of the letters on the screen while in MS-DOS (2.11).
> 
> I would like to look at green characters for awhile instead of white.
> 
> I do have ANSI.SYS installed but can't figure out how to use it
> to change the color (If you can do it with that at all)
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Nick.
> 
> 
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	REF:
PC Tech Journal Mar 1985
Page 36
 a command to change foreground and background colors
do the following:
------------------------------------------------------------
A>debug color.com
           { ignore the message FILE NOT FOUND }
-rcx
:20
-e 100 2b c0 1e 50 b8 03 00 cd 10 b8 00 06 b9 00 00 ba
-e 110 50 20 b7 $? cd 10 b4 02 ba 00 00 b7 00 cd 10 cb
-w 
writing 20 bytes 
-q
-----------------------------------------------------------
	where : $ is replaced with a color for 
                  background (0-7)
                ? is replaced with a color for
                  foreground (0-f)
                Color codes can be found in the 
                IBM Basic manual
###########################################################
	black	0
	blue	2
	green	4
	cyan	6
	red	8
	magenta	a
	brown	c
	white	e
	gray	1
lite	blue	3
lite	green	5
lite	cyan	7
lite	red	9
lite    magenta	b
	yellow	d
lite	white	f
  
I have commands like red.com ,green.com and blue.com
which I use in AUTOEXEC.BAT files to remind me of different
DOS configurations.
------------------------------------------------------------
 e.g. red background yellow foreground  called RED
------------------------------------------------------------
debug red.com
           { ignore the message FILE NOT FOUND }
-rcx
:20
-e 100 2b c0 1e 50 b8 03 00 cd 10 b8 00 06 b9 00 00 ba
-e 110 50 20 b7 8d cd 10 b4 02 ba 00 00 b7 00 cd 10 cb
-w 
writing 20 bytes 
-q
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hope this helps you 
from the convoluted mind of:
chuck miller (DR x4741) DR31-F25 ...drutx!chuck