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From: rde@ukc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: forcing color change from dos
Message-ID: <791@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 08:13:14 EST
Article-I.D.: eagle.791
Posted: Wed Feb 19 08:13:14 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 07:23:51 EST
References: <1031@loral.UUCP> <882@hou2d.UUCP>
Reply-To: rde@eagle.UUCP (R.D.Eager)
Organization: U of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK
Lines: 41
Keywords: color dos

In article <882@hou2d.UUCP> jrmb@hou2d.UUCP writes:
>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 .


If you don't want to buy the DOS manual, try looking at a copy of the ANSI
standard for terminals. It includes the colour changing codes as an ISO
extension. Or...(plug plug) buy my book "Intro to PCDOS" which has a lot of
this stuff in appendices and costs a lot less than a DOS manual -)
-- 
           Bob Eager

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