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From: jrmb@hou2d.UUCP (J.BONILHA)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: forcing color change from dos
Message-ID: <882@hou2d.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 10:53:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 10:53:58 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Feb-86 04:02:29 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Keywords: color dos

I have a PC/AT ( DOS 3.1  ) and I implemented the following, giving 
yellow foreground and blue background:

I added to CONFIG.SYS the following line :

DEVICE=C:ANSI.SYS ( or the appropriate pathname ; this file comes with
MS DOS )


added to AUTOEXEC.BAT:

TYPE YELLOW.BLU    ( or the appropriate filename )

Created file YELLOW.BLU containing the following escape sequence:

ESC[1;33;44m 

 I used vi to create this file, but a BASIC program would do it, if 
 EDLIN rejects the escape sequence.

More information can be found on the DOS Technical Reference, Chapter 3:
Using Extended Screen and Keyboard Control( section on SET GRAPHICS 
RENDITION - SGR ).

This manual doesn't come with the PC and has to be purchased from IBM 
at a cost of $100 .