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From: alb7e@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Lynn Barbee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Video Attributes
Message-ID: <2226@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 88 23:17:16 GMT
References: <518@auvax.UUCP>
Organization: U.Va. CS Department, Charlottesville, VA
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In article <518@auvax.UUCP>, terryt@auvax.UUCP (Terry Tanski) writes:
> 
> How do you change the video attributes on an IBM PC. I would like to
> bold,reverse,underline strings on the screen but don't know how or
> what escape sequences to use.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Terry Tanski - Systems Analyst
> 	       Athabasca University
> 	       Athabasca, Alberta CANADA
> 
> (!alberta!auvax!terryt)


Subject: Re: Video Attributes

ASSUMPTION: using MS-DOS

A PC uses ANSI escape sequences to print underlined, blinking , etc
characters.  First you must have device=ansi.sys in your config.sys
file and of course have ansi.sys available.  ANSI.SYS should be on
your MS-DOS diskette.  The following is an incomplete set of ANSI
sequence's :

	ESC code sequence		Function
	-----------------		--------

Erase Functions:

	ESC[2J				Clear screen and home cursor

	ESC[K				clear to end of line

Set graphics rendition:

	ESC[#;#;...;#m			Set display attributes where # is

					0 for normal display

					1 for bold on

					4 underline (mono only)

					5 blink on
					
					8 invisible

					30 black foreground

					31 red foreground

					32 green foreground

					33 yellow foreground
		
					34 blue foreground

					35 magenta foreground

					36 cyan foreground

					37 white foreground

					40 - 47 background colors in same order
						as above foreground

ESC[=#;7h				Put screen in mode #

					0 for 40 x 25 mono

					2 for 80 x 25 mono

This is no where near all of them but maybe it's a start.
Hope it helps.

Lynn Barbee
Bell Communications Research
GSP to Univ. Of Virginia