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From: billw@felix.UUCP (Bill Weinberger)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: forcing color change from dos
Message-ID: <891@felix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 13:04:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 18 13:04:32 1986
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Keywords: color dos

In article <1031@loral.UUCP> jvz@loral.UUCP (John Van Zandt) writes:
>Having just gotten a color monitor the my IBM-PC/XT, I've decided I
>don't like white characters on black background.  How can I have
>DOS set the color of my characters on a permanent basis (i.e., every
>time I turn the system on)?  I tried doing it in basic, but exiting
>basic resets the colors (it appears).
>

The most straightforward way that I have found is to use the ANSI.SYS
device driver included with DOS.  The DOS User's Guide (2.0) or DOS
Technical Manual (2.1, etc.) describe the escape sequences you can write
to the con: device to invoke the various display attributes, such as color.
Of course, other programs may have their own ideas about the color, but ANSI
will use and restore your defined colors for talking to DOS and other programs
that write to con:.

Their are 3 major ways to write the escape sequences to con: (choose one):
   1. use the "$e" meta-character in the PROMPT command
   2. edit them into a file and then TYPE or COPY it to con:
   3. write or obtain a program to do it

Hope this helps.
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Regards, Bill Weinberger                               ucbvax!trwrb!felix!billw
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