Re: [Freedos-user] default screen colors

[John R. S. <js...@am...>]

If you use a command processor like 4DOS, you can say "cls white on blue"


John



On 01/20/2018 10:32 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hey Raul!
>
>> Can anybody tell me how to change the default color of my
>> FREEDOS screen from BLACK background with WHITE text TO
>> BLUE BACKGROUND WITH white TEXT? THANKS IN ADVANCE!
> The standard method of this is to load the ANSI driver
> (for example NANSI) and send appropriate ESCape sequences
> to change the colors. People usually do that with PROMPT
> settings in their config / autoexec but you can also use
> the EECHO tool or other means of writing ESC sequences.
>
> Because it basically works the same in all DOS versions,
> you can search the web for any old MS DOS, DR DOS, PC
> DOS, FreeDOS or other tutorial on the topic to find out
> more about the possibilities :-) You can also read the
> NANSI documentation (nansi.doc or the HTMLHELP for it).
> With FreeDOS EDIT, you can also insert the ESC character
> (hex 0x1b, decimal 27) directly into ECHO lines in your
> autoexec. But as said, the usual method is the PROMPT.
>
> Regards, Eric
>
>
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