On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Daniel Verkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Matt inson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, I just wanted to ask a simple question. Would command line interfaces >> look better on laptops and other LCD screens if they are using black text on >> white backgrounds, rather than the usual reverse (white text on black, as >> MS-DOS normally had it)? I'm aware that white text on blue was popular, but >> I thought that with LCD it looked better to reverse it. I guess it would >> make DOS look kind of like a word processor in a GUI environment, though. >> With CRT screens it was tiresome to look at so much light being projected >> out of the screen at once, and I noticed that FreeDOS is being sold/packaged >> with new laptops. LCDs are of course very good these days, so you display >> dark images, etc., pretty well without a hitch, so maybe it doesn't really >> matter. I thought it'd be neat though to see a new version of "DOS," some >> kind of MS-DOS or freeDOS or whatever it is I'm writing to here, and have >> the colors be black text on white, but maybe you guys already have color >> options in the configuration. > > Try 'color f0' or 'color 70'. >
And, of course, this is the part where I stick my foot in my mouth and realize COLOR is not in FreeDOS; looks like you need (N)ANSI.SYS and PROMPT with some ANSI color escape sequences instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
