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- From: fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Hangs - Help!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.230953.26796@csc.ti.com>
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- References: <1992Aug30.195140.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> <21515@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:09:53 GMT
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- In article <21515@optima.cs.arizona.edu> shack@cs.arizona.edu (David Shackelford) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug30.195140.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> astsloke@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg writes:
- >>
- >>P.S. How do I change the color of the DOS window foreground? Using the Orchid
- >>Drivers made the font a nearly invisible light grey.
- >>
- >
- >There is no way to do this directly from the WPS. What I do is run a
- >color-setting program (like Norton's SA) in the autoexec.bat, which
- >runs every time a DOS window or full-screen is opened.
- >
- >David Shackelford
-
- Another way is to customize the PROMPT string to include the ANSI
- escape sequences (presuming you don't mind installing the ANSI
- driver-- since you have so much more DOS memory available than you
- used to...).
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