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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
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>.
T