[pchelpers] Re: White screen in dos

  • From: Scott McNay <Wizard@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: GCox <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:30:53 -0500

Hi George,

Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 2:30:21 AM, you wrote:

G> I remember not long ago someone asked about changing the colors of the dos
G> screen. Anyone remember what I'm talking about?

Yes, that's done with ANSI commands, and you must have DEVICE=ANSI.SYS
in the C:\CONFIG.SYS file in order for this to work. If you have
something like that in the file, put a REM (with a trailing space) at
the front of that line, so that it looks something like
REM DEVICE=ANSI.SYS.

--Scott.

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