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- From: sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu (Kate Wilson)
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- Subject: Re: ANSI-type utility help
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- Date: 31 Jul 1992 13:43:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.192344.23354@u.washington.edu> olsont@hardy.u.washington.edu (.) writes:
-
- > I am looking for a utility that will highlight the names of files
- >with user-definable colors based on the file's extension. For
- >instance, when using dir all .exe file names are red and all .bat
- >file names are blue. Does anyone know of such a utility on any
- >of the FTP sites?
- >Thanks in advance,
- >todd
- >olsont@hardy.u.washington.edu
-
- 4DOS has an environment variable called COLORDIR which does this. You
- can add a line to your autoexec file such as:
- SET COLORDIR=COM EXE:RED; BAT:BRIGHT CYAN; RDONLY:BLINK GREEN
-
- kate wilson
-