Ted Roche wrote: > And it used to be, if you had ANSI.SYS looaded, you could use ANSI > escape codes to set colors (all sixteen of them!), blink, block > graphics, and more. But that would be wrong. > > I used to have a prompt something like $e[33;44;1m$p$g
which gave me some nice different colours. $p$g is used now (the path and a greater than sign.) Try these in a cmd prompt: prompt = $p$l (path and less than sign) prompt = $$ (just a dollar sign) Some examples here: http://www.computerhope.com/prompthl.htm#04 Peter _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

