Message-ID: <004301c079c3$49b116e0$027efea9@c6d3n3> From: "Matthias Paul" To: References: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021EA4 AT emwatent02 DOT meters DOT com DOT au> Subject: Re: DOSBOOK, DRDOS.INI Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:31:57 +0100 Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de id f08MZem17723 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id RAA12736 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On 2001-01-04 Joe Da Silva wrote: > WRT colours, yes(!) that stark white (inspired by Windoze?) is > terrible, particularly if your video card is crappy and flickers and > has no DOS drivers to "bump up" the refresh rate [...] Totally agreed. > [...] you will have a choice > of about eight different colour schemes. None of them are all > that pretty, but they are mostly much better than stark white! > It is even possible to modify these colour schemes and add > one or two of your own [...] Here are two of my examples for user defined color schemes. They resemble the blue colors of the Borland IDE or the green colors of the NDOS (Nortonīs OEMs issue of 4DOS) command shell and will significantly reduce the flickering. ColorSet8 = "BlueMP" (14,1)(15,8)(15,1)(15,4)(0,1)(0,7) ... ... (15,3)(3,7)(4,7)(15,1)(10,1)(12,1)(2,15) ColorSet9 = "GreenMP" (0,2)(15,7)(15,8)(15,4)(0,2)(0,7) ... ... (15,0)(8,7)(4,7)(14,2)(6,2)(15,2)(2,15) If you want one of them to become the global default color set, add them to the [COLORS] section in the %DRDOSCFG%\DRDOS.INI file (%OPENDOSCFG%\OPENDOS.INI/%NWDOSCFG%\NWDOS.INI) and change the MaxColors=10 and CurrentColor=8 directives accordingly. (Somewhat odd, if a file of this name does not exist, NET.EXE looks for a file named COLORS.INI in the directory specified by %DRDOSCFG% (%OPENDOSCFG%/%NWDOSCFG%), while LOCK.EXE looks for a file with fixed path C:\DRDOS\DOS.INI (C:\OPENDOS\DOS.INI/C:\NWDOS\DOS.INI)). For those experiencing screen flicker and no refresh rate tool in reach, or with an incompatible VGA cards (like some of the Cirrus cards), I recomment to change the NewUI=On to Off. This will disable the graphically animated user interface and re-enable a plain text mode appearance. Since DR-OpenDOS 7.02+ (10/1997) this will no longer disable the graphically animated mouse pointer (except for the mouse pointer in SETUP/INSTALL, which is still bound to NewUI=On|Off). The appearance of the mouse can now be controlled independently of NewUI=On|Off by using the new SmoothMouse=On|Off directive, because some applications (for example the TechWay Chinese Character System) have problems with the smooth mouse cursor. (SmoothMouse= is checked by DISKOPT, DOSBOOK, EDIT, FILELINK, INSTALL/SETUP and UNDELETE, but not by SECURITY.OVL and NET.EXE.). If you want to use different color schemes with different tools (e.g. the DOSBOOK should look like the NDOS help system, and EDIT like the Borland IDE editor), just place the CurrentColor= directives in separate groups named after the corresponding file, e.g. [DISKOPT], [DOSBOOK], [UNDELETE], [FILELINK]. Thereīs one exception: The group name for EDIT.EXE is named [EDITOR]. Many more color scheme details and info on the other directives can be found in chapter II.19. (and other locations) in the NWDOSTIP.TXT file (part of MPDOSTIP.ZIP, which is available for free on my web-site - see footer for the link). Enjoy, Matthias ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------