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- COLOR COMMAND
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- Michael M. Yokoyama
- June, 1986
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- Summary:
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- COLOR command to select text colors for on IBM-PC under PC-DOS and compatibles
- under MS-DOS. The COLOR command is used in the same manner as the MS-BASIC
- COLOR command.
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- Syntax:
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- COLOR <foreground>[+] [<background>]\n",ESC,ESC);
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- Examples:
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- COLOR 0 3 Black on yellow (for that expensive terminal look)
- COLOR 1 4 Red on blue (for emphasis?!)
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- Default:
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- The background color code may be omitted; the default is black.\n");
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- COLOR 4 Blue (on default black)
- COLOR 3 Yellow (on default black; looks like those amber monitors)
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- Highlighting:
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- Append a plus (+) after the foreground code to highlight the color. Mote that
- highlighting applies only to foreground colors.
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- COLOR 2+ 4 Bright green on blue
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- Notes:
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- This program uses ANSI escape sequences. To use this program, you must have
- the file named ANSI.SYS on the root directory of your boot disk, and the
- following statement in your CONFIG.SYS file.
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- device=ANSI.SYS
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- Help screen:
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- To view the help scren for the COLOR command, enter the command without
- parameters as follows:
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- COLOR
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