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Re: Can you have black on white standard windows?

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From: David Charlap
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 00:29
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In article <1993May10.061507.85@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> david-keber@uiowa.edu 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?

Replace your PROMPT statement in config.sys and autoexec.bat to read:

SET PROMPT=$e[0;30;47m$p$g

Or something similar (replace the "$p$g" part with your favorite
prompt text).

Note that you'll need ANSI support active.  This is by default for
OS/2 windows.  For DOS boxes, include a

	DEVICE=\OS2\MDOS\ANSI.SYS /X

in your config.sys.

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