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- Correction:
-
- In the July 9, 1985 Spreadsheet Clinic the addresses for changing colors
- in Lotus 1-2-3 with DEBUG were correct, but those for Symphony work only for a
- specific combination of drivers. To find the address where the color-control
- data is stored in your own configuration, you must start by using DEBUG to
- search Symphony's LOTUS.SET file. At the A>, with LOTUS.SET in drive A:
- and DEBUG.COM in drive B:, type
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- b:debug lotus.set <CR>.
-
- Then, at the debug - prompt, type
-
- rcx <CR>.
-
- This will give you the (hexadecimal) ending address of the file. It is the
- four-digit number after the characters CX. Write that address down and hit a
- blank <CR> to leave the file's contents unchanged.
- Now, at DEBUG's - prompt, type
-
- s 100 xxxx 07 30 0A 20 <enter>.
-
- For xxxx, you substitute the hex address you wrote down in the previous step.
- The s is the search command, so DEBUG will scan from the beginning of the file
- (100) to its end (xxxx), looking for the values (which are Symphony's default
- color values) you typed in. Finding them, the command will return their
- address (say, yyyy), the four digits after the colon.
-
- To change the colors you can now proceed as described in the Spreadsheet
- Clinic column. Type
-
- -e yyyy <CR>.
-
- This will display the contents at that address and allow you to change colors
- by entering the new two-digit values you desire. After entering the first, hit
- the space bar, and the value at the next address will appear. Type a new value,
- then a space, and continue until you have typed four values. Then hit a
- <CR>. You then write the new values to your file and exit DEBUG with the
- following commands:
-
- -w <CR>
- -q <enter>
-
- DEBUG will tell you how many bytes it is writing and then quit to the A>.
-
- Michael Duke
-
- Oklahoma City
-
- Jared Taylor replies:
- This patch works fine. We apologize for the error in that column. Bear in mind
- that each two-digit value you change affects two different colors, background
- and foreground. Instead of the default color values, you might try 3F 1C 4E 24
- for a pleasant effect.
- BUG.COM in drive B:, type
-
- b:debug lotus.set <CR>.
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