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From: bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Fun with prompts!
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Date: 24 Nov 88 22:15:46 GMT
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Something neat I discovered and thought I'd pass on ...

If you look in the sample shell.startup in the 1.3 S: dir, there are
2 aliases specified ... reverse and normal ... which change the screen
to white and back to blue ( assuming normal colours )


For people that know what is going on, this is not too exciting.  But,
for those that doen't, looking at how these work is worthwhile.  You
will discover that what they are doing is sending console escape sequences
to set the forground and backgroud pen to the appropriate colours.

What this is leading to are the neat possibilities this opens up.  For
example, try using these to make your prompt more attractive:

  prompt "*E[33m[*E[31m%S*[33m]*E31m >"

( I did that from memory and toned it down a bit ... mine has the 
  directory in it too! )

I thought this was neat food for thought ... I'm going to try to whip up
a little program to do something more interesting!  

Bye for now.

Blair
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