From:	"Gary Hubbard" <me AT sandia DOT gov>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Screen colors under Win2K
Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:04:33 -0800
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I am wondering if there is a way to change the default screen colors for
DJGPP programs under Windows 2000.   I am running in the standard cmd.exe
console window.

On Win95 I used ansi.sys and set my prompt to change the colors and normal
DJGPP programs, like djecho,  followed suit.  Under Win2K I change the color
attributes of the window using the properties dialog box to display in black
on white, but normal stdio writes come out in white on black.    It is a bit
distracting when compiler messages and grep searches come out with their
colors reversed from my "normal".

Clearly I can fix this by running in bash, but other users run some of my
programs and I would prefer their output go be in the right color.

Examining a couple of examples that use colors, less and ls,  was no help.
Both seem to do lots of extra things to get control of the screen colors.

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