X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: "Michal H. Tyc" Organization: BTTR Software Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:16:29 +0100 X-Mailer: Arachne V1.73;GPL To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANSI.SYS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:05:14 +1100 (EST), DONALD PEDDER wrote: > Okay, I finally found the code for green foreground in the help for > ANSI.SYS, but now what? I put ANSI.SYS in my config and re-booted (however > I don't see it when I do a "mem /a", unless it's under "CON" or "DOS"). ANSI.SYS replaces CON device driver in DOS BIOS. It is shown as "CON" and takes about 4 Kbytes. (DISPLAY.SYS is shown as CON as well, if you load it, but it's normally larger.) Please check if you can see a 4 Kb CON driver. > I created a file with the escape sequence in it, but when I do a "type" on > it, my text is still white. > DOSbook isn't very precise on how to use ANSI.SYS - it says to put it > in the config, which I did, it says to edit a file with the escape > sequence and then do a "type" on it, which I did, and that's all it says, > yet I still have white text. Does this file need to be passed to ANSI.SYS > in the config or something? Confused. No, you don't have to do anything else. TYPE should work. Can you send me this text file for analysis? (to my private address, unless you want to be called spammer again ;->) Maybe you just mistyped the escape sequences? Michal