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Article #17437Re: Can you have black on white standard windows?
From: Steven Hayes
Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 23:33
Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 23:33
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dkeber@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (David Keber) writes:
>The default color for all windows in OS/2 is white text on a black background.
>I find this very hard on the eyes. Is there a way to permanently change this
>so every window is opened with black text (or another color) on a white
>background?
You can use ANSI escape codes to change the colour of the prompt and the text
in the window, although changing the colour of normal text may only completely
update the screen if you type 'cls'.
Steve
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