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From: sridhar@usceast.UUCP (M. A. Sridhar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Some questions
Message-ID: <2734@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 89 21:51:21 GMT
Reply-To: sridhar@usceast.uucp.UUCP (M. A. Sridhar)
Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia
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I'm new to the MSDOS world, so please help me out with these questions: (If it
matters, I just got a CompuAdd 286/12 with VGA and a NEC Multisync II monitor.)

  1. Is there any way that I can change the colors on the display when using
  the command processor? By default it has white characters on a black
  background, and I'd like to change (if possible) both these.

  2. Is there any way that I can have something like the `sysline' capability
  of Unix on this machine? What I want is a line at the bottom of the display,
  showing the data and time. It would be nice to be able to specify what I want
  in that line.

  3. Is there a port of the Unix `refer' program for a PC/AT? Someone suggested
  talking to the Elan Computer Group in California, but Elan only sells eqn and
  tbl (with troff), but not refer.

Thanks very much, in advance.


                                           Sridhar
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