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Color.exe 3.0 (C) 1996
Color.exe can change the default background and foreground of command-line DOS
and such types of utilities such as PkZip, Mem/C, Debug, etc. It' easy to use.
You just type Color. If you make some kind of error, it simply returns you to
the first prompt, for background. This program is not a TSR (whew).
For these programs to work, you can't run an ANSI device driver of any kind.
Check the boot file Config.Sys for a line such as Device = Ansi.Sys, etc.
Remove it if you can. (Well, here we go; I always found my computer to run
faster without an Ansi driver anyway, really really really).....
If you run another menu-driven type of program such as Q_Edit, though, (a word
processor) it will destroy the colors you have chosen for DOS. That's so that
this program can avoid being one of those "pop-up" TSRs, using memory. It's
not a TSR, but you still have control of the colors of DOS, if you put Color
in a batch file with command-line parameters. Try something like this:
Color 1 15 (bright-white on blue background)
Color ? (gives you the help screen)
The program takes two parameters, with only spaces for separators. To see the
instructions, just Enter Color ? or make an error in the parameters.
Background comes first; 0 thru 7, then foreground; 0 thru 15. First, you can
use the menu-driven part (no parameters) and learn the colors and feel of it.
Then you can pick out extra pretty colors. Then, remember the two numbers for
use on the command-line and quickly change colors. This is handy in your batch
files for return from any program to DOS, in your choice of colors. You modify
the two numbers to a combination you thought was especially pretty! This is
handy in batch files which you use to access your programs (your colors are
destroyed). Now, put Color (with parameters) just before the end of the batch
file (your colors are restored to whatever you want, upon return to DOS). This
means my program doesn't need to be a TSR (it isn't), saving you memory.
You can also run Color from Windows in this manner; (I use 3.1, you '95 users,
try to go along): Make a batch file in the Windows directory, make the first
line Color B F (again, your choices on color numbers, not B F). Then the next
line should say C:\Command.Com or whatever & wherever you keep your command
interpreter. Save the batch file. Then, go into Windows, open the .Pif editor,
and open Dosprmpt.Pif. Make the 'command line' part call your batch file, not
Command.Com, put the .Bat extension too. Save the .Pif file and you're ready
for color DOS prompt sessions in Windows.
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