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- Color.exe 3.0 (C) 1996
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- 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' easy to use.
- You just type Color. If you make some kind of error, it simply returns you to
- the first prompt, for background. This program is not a TSR (whew).
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- 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, etc.
- Remove it if you can. (Well, here we go; I always found my computer to run
- faster without an Ansi driver anyway, really really really).....
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- 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. That's so that
- this program can avoid being one of those "pop-up" TSRs, using memory. It's
- not a TSR, but you still have control of the colors of DOS, if you put Color
- in a batch file with command-line parameters. Try something like this:
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- Color 1 15 (bright-white on blue background)
- Color ? (gives you the help screen)
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- The program takes two parameters, with only spaces for separators. To see the
- instructions, just Enter Color ? or make an error in the parameters.
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- Background comes first; 0 thru 7, then foreground; 0 thru 15. First, you can
- use the menu-driven part (no parameters) and learn the colors and feel of it.
- Then you can pick out extra pretty colors. Then, remember the two numbers for
- use on the command-line and quickly change colors. This is handy in your batch
- files for return from any program to DOS, in your choice of colors. You modify
- the two numbers to a combination you thought was especially pretty! This is
- handy in batch files which you use to access your programs (your colors are
- destroyed). Now, put Color (with parameters) just before the end of the batch
- file (your colors are restored to whatever you want, upon return to DOS). This
- means my program doesn't need to be a TSR (it isn't), saving you memory.
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- You can also run Color from Windows in this manner; (I use 3.1, you '95 users,
- try to go along): Make a batch file in the Windows directory, make the first
- line Color B F (again, your choices on color numbers, not B F). Then the next
- line should say C:\Command.Com or whatever & wherever you keep your command
- interpreter. Save the batch file. Then, go into Windows, open the .Pif editor,
- and open Dosprmpt.Pif. Make the 'command line' part call your batch file, not
- Command.Com, put the .Bat extension too. Save the .Pif file and you're ready
- for color DOS prompt sessions in Windows.
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