Hi Matt, > using black text on white backgrounds, rather than the usual reverse
To do that, you can load NANSI and set your prompt to prompt $E[0;7;5m$P$G this means "send black on white ANSI escape sequence then show the current drive and path and then a > sign". It will probably not work for ALL text but for MOST. Doing cls can help here, too. Other sequences are explained in the NANSI docs, see freedos.org software list base item "nansi" for NANSI downloads :-). Note that $E means ESC character (ASCII 27). You can also output it using EECHO and other means / tools... To type it in EDIT, say "ctrl-p ESC". Use TYPE to output text files with ESC sequences. If things do not display properly, consider updating your NANSI. The distro on http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ should have the current version of NANSI, kernel and freecom command.com, while FreeDOS 1.0 might not. By the way, when you want a very stable system, consider using freecom 0.82pl3 instead of 0.84 - the old version does not use long file names but is more "conservative". In full screen apps such as EDIT or DEFRAG, you can often select one of several color schemes or even define your own - this is independent from NANSI / colored command prompt and shell setup. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
