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Article #5721Re: forcing color change from dos
From: rde
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1986 13:13
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1986 13:13
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In article <882@hou2d.UUCP> jrmb@hou2d.UUCP writes:
>I have a PC/AT ( DOS 3.1 ) and I implemented the following, giving
>yellow foreground and blue background:
>
>I added to CONFIG.SYS the following line :
>
>DEVICE=C:ANSI.SYS ( or the appropriate pathname ; this file comes with
>MS DOS )
>
>
>added to AUTOEXEC.BAT:
>
>TYPE YELLOW.BLU ( or the appropriate filename )
>
>Created file YELLOW.BLU containing the following escape sequence:
>
>ESC[1;33;44m
>
> I used vi to create this file, but a BASIC program would do it, if
> EDLIN rejects the escape sequence.
>
>More information can be found on the DOS Technical Reference, Chapter 3:
>Using Extended Screen and Keyboard Control( section on SET GRAPHICS
>RENDITION - SGR ).
>
>This manual doesn't come with the PC and has to be purchased from IBM
>at a cost of $100 .
If you don't want to buy the DOS manual, try looking at a copy of the ANSI
standard for terminals. It includes the colour changing codes as an ISO
extension. Or...(plug plug) buy my book "Intro to PCDOS" which has a lot of
this stuff in appendices and costs a lot less than a DOS manual -)
--
Bob Eager
rde@ukc.UUCP
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!ukc!rde From: rde@ukc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: forcing color change from dos Message-ID: <791@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 08:13:14 EST Article-I.D.: eagle.791 Posted: Wed Feb 19 08:13:14 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 07:23:51 EST References: <1031@loral.UUCP> <882@hou2d.UUCP> Reply-To: rde@eagle.UUCP (R.D.Eager) Organization: U of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK Lines: 41 Keywords: color dos