[Freedos-user] Change dos gray-on-black default colour settings
Dos, (and Freedos), by default, have gray text on black background It is not perfect in some cases (bright light from window, tired eyes, etc...) (The software hexed.exe, practically, change color settings from gray-on-black to green-on-black. Practically, only cls return custom colours. It is funny feauture, I think) Can anybody write customisable software, for selecting colors for dos? for example, yellow-on-blue or white-on-black, or (excellent) with changeable colour scheme? -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos gray-on-black default colour settings
sakura kinomoto wrote: Can anybody write customisable software, for selecting colors for dos? for example, yellow-on-blue or white-on-black, or (excellent) with changeable colour scheme? PRISM from 1990. Create color profiles. Call a different profile for each app. As I recall it cost me nothing at the time; PC Mag I think. So I can probably share it. Ray -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos gray-on-black default colour settings
On 2013-02-13 12:25 (GMT-0500) dmccunney composed: Ray Davison wrote: sakura kinomoto wrote: Can anybody write customisable software, for selecting colors for dos? for example, yellow-on-blue or white-on-black, or (excellent) with changeable colour scheme? PRISM from 1990. Create color profiles. Call a different profile for each app. As I recall it cost me nothing at the time; PC Mag I think. So I can probably share it. Volume 9, Number 21. PC Mag itself made access to the files subscriber only, but lots of copies are floating around in archives from before that policy change. See ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm1/coast/msdos/pcmag/vol9n21.zip ftp://ftp.pl.pgpi.org/vol/rzm1/coast/msdos/pcmag/vol9n21.zip ftp://ftp.pl.scene.org/vol/rzm1/coast/msdos/pcmag/vol9n21.zip PRISM.EXE, Pascal source, and a variety of pre-made profiles. I had the sub and likely got it at release or via PC Mag CD, but probably haven't used it since. Instead of in my DOS BIN DIR, I have it specially located and call it via PRISM.BAT (to use Melrose) instead. -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos gray-on-black default colour settings
I can not find neither PRISM nor PC MAG in google :( -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos gray-on-black default colour settings
how to use nansi.sys to change colour scheme? I find some info in web, but it is hard for newbie I guess I put string in config.sys: device=c:\odin\nansi.sys; what next step I need? -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos gray-on-black default colour settings
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:18 PM, sakura kinomoto like-a-m...@list.ru wrote: how to use nansi.sys to change colour scheme? I find some info in web, but it is hard for newbie I guess I put string in config.sys: device=c:\odin\nansi.sys; what next step I need? Escape sequences. ANSI escape sequences all begin with Escape[, with the following characters specifying the action to be performed. Nansi implements a subset of the DEC VT102 terminal control codes. It differs from Microsoft's ANSI.SYS in being a lot faster, and adding support for the Add Line and Delete Line instructions. Once NANSI is loaded, you use the PROMPT to issue the escape sequences. For instance, I use something like this: PROMPT=$e[s$e[H$e[7m$e[K$D $B $P$e[m$e[u$g It does the following: $e[s Save the cursor location $e[HHome the cursor to the top left of the screen $e[7m Set inverse video $e[KClear to end of line $D print current date $B Print pipe symbol $P Print current drive/directory $e[mEnd attributes $e[u Restore cursor to stored location $gPrint on screen This creates an inverse video status bar at the top of the screen with current date and directory, which stays there while the moves down. The prompt command redraws the status bar at screen top after each command entry. If I want to fiddle with colors, those are settable via ANSI escape sequences too. See http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/nansi.htm for a list of what NANSI supports. __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos gray-on-black default colour settings
thank you very very much! I type : set prompt=$p$g$e[0;37;40m ; it nice P.S.: yellow is similar to orange or pink; maybe, it is bug of my monitor/videocard *(^^)* -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos gray-on-black default colour settings
SOLUTION: devload nansi.sys set prompt=$p$g$e[1;37;40m for white/black or set prompt=$p$g$e[1;33;44m (yellow/blue; pretty nice) P. S.: for bad yellow: solved: just need to degauss monitor P.P.S: thanking for any answer! thank Ray Devison, Felix Miata and others! -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
