Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:27:14 -0600 (MDT)
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From: raster AT highfiber DOT com (Charles Dye)
Subject: Re: Custom color definitions
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So saith Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de:

>On Thu, 28 May 1998 Charles Dye wrote:
>
>> Has anyone figured out what the fourth pair of numbers does, in the
>> color definitions in DRDOS.INI?  Is it completely unused?
>
>Hm, I don t know by heart, but you should find that in NWDOSTIP.TXT 
>(MPDOSTIP.ZIP). Search for "HelpMP" or "EditMP" in that document. 
>I hope it is self-explainatory even for those who don t speak 
>German...

"Warnungen" is clearly "warnings."  Sure enough, color 4 is used for
the title bars of error-message windows.  (Making EDIT display an error
box is not easy!  Try editing a password-protected file.)  Thanks,
Matthias.

>BTW. I have gratefully registered two translators for NWDOSTIP.TXT 
>     and they told me they have started to translate parts of 
>     it. 

Keep us posted!  There's a huge amount of information in there that
I'd like to be able to browse someday.

I see a long section about SwitChar, but I don't see directions on
how to patch out COMMAND.COM's horribly buggy SwitChar handling.
Would you like that info?

raster AT highfiber DOT com