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ColorDos 1.0 (C) 1995
Color.Exe can change the default background and foreground of command-line DOS
and such types of utilities such as PkZip, Mem/C, Debug, etc. It is fully menu
driven. You just type Color. If you make some kind of error, it simply returns
you to the first prompt, for background.
For these programs to work, you can't run an ANSI device driver of any kind.
Check the boot file Config.Sys for a line such as Device = Ansi.Sys, or
Device = Zansi.Sys, etc. Remove it if you can. (Here we go; I always found my
computer to run faster without an Ansi driver anyway, really really really)...
If you run another menu-driven type of program such as Q_Edit, though, (a word
processor) it will destroy the colors you have chosen for DOS. You need to run
Color again. There are many combinations of color to choose from.
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Color2, the command-line version
Color2.Exe is the command-line version, and a little explaining is due here.
You use DosCol.Bat, which uses Buffer.Com to put in your numbers. Notice the
lines that say:
Buffer 1?15?
Color2
The Question mark is faked in, and stands for the Enter key. 1 is background,
and 15 is foreground. First, experiment with Color.Exe to learn it. Then you
can pick out extra pretty colors. Then remember the two number values for use
with Color2.Exe and any batch file you want, to automatically change the
colors of DOS. You just really need those two last lines in DosCol.Bat for
your own batch files to return to DOS or whatever else. You modify the two
numbers to a combination you thought was especially pretty! Background number
first (0-7), then Foreground number (0-15).
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