X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: "mark lewis" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANSI.SYS Message-ID: Date: Wednesday, 03 Dec 2003 12:19:32 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) In-Reply-To: X-Fido-From: mark lewis, 1:3634/12 X-Fido-To: DONALD PEDDER MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IgLou-Customer: verified X-Originating-IP: 204.252.74.37 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Originally to: DONALD PEDDER DP> From: DONALD PEDDER DP> Okay, I finally found the code for green foreground DP> in the help for ANSI.SYS, but now what? I put DP> ANSI.SYS in my config and re-booted (however I don't DP> see it when I do a "mem /a", unless it's under "CON" DP> or "DOS"). you listed it as DEVICE=ANSI.SYS with the proper path, correct? DP> I created a file with the escape sequence in it, DP> but when I do a "type" on it, my text is still white. what escape sequence did you use? DP> DOSbook isn't very precise on how to use ANSI.SYS - DP> it says to put it in the config, which I did, it says DP> to edit a file with the escape sequence and then do DP> a "type" on it, which I did, and that's all it says, that's rather sad... DP> yet I still have white text. Does this file need to DP> be passed to ANSI.SYS in the config or something? DP> Confused. try it this way... assuming your current prompt is $p $g... PROMPT=$e[0;32;1m$p $g put that in your autoexec.bat... if it is too bright, remove the ';1' portion... you should be able to set this manually at your prompt to find the sequence that you like... )\/(ark