Re: Setting up new dosemu 1.3.3

[Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com>]

jegunn wrote:
> Hi, Karl.
> 
> I wrote a little dos C program many years ago to set the screen colors.
> usage is
> 
> Usage: ansicolo fg bg i
> Colors: blk 0 red 1 grn 2 yell 3 blu 4 mag 5 cya 6 wht 7
> i is 0 for normal foreground, 1 for intensified        
> 
> You need to load ansi.c or vansi.c in your config.sys.
> 
> I tried to attach the executable, but the list will not accept it. If
> you want it, it is on our ftp site:
> 
> ftp://astro.princeton.edu/jeg/ansicolo/ansicolo.exe
> 
> --jim gunn
> 
> ****************************************************************************
> 
> If you have a c compiler, the (almost trivial) source is
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> 
> main(argc,argv)
> int argc;
> char **argv;
> {
>     if(argc < 3){
>         printf("\nUsage: ansicolor fg bg i");
>         printf("\nColors: blk 0 red 1 grn 2 yell 3 blu 4 mag 5 cya 6 wht 7");
>         printf("\ni is 0 for normal foreground, 1 for intensified");
>         printf("\n");
>     }else{
>         printf("\033[0;3%s;4%sm",argv[1],argv[2]);
>         if(argc == 4 && *argv[3] == '1') printf("\033[1m");
>         printf("\033[2J");
>     }
> }

Hello jim.

I compiled your script but forgot how to convert a.out to a .exe file. 
Not even sure gcc can do that.  It's been a long time since I used C in dos.

Also are you sure to use ansi.c and not ansi.sys in config.sys?

I solved the screen color problem in a different way by using 4dos which 
is a commmand.com replacement/enhancement I've used for 20 years.
It just recently became free of charge but I've paid them a lot over the 
years - very much worth it.

4dos can have aliases so I put the following alias in the alias file:
setcolor=color black on white	(Black is fg and white is bg)

and the following line in autoexec.bat:
prompt=`%@exec[@setcolor]$P$G`		( note backticks)

This gives me an easy to read black letters on grey screen in a KDE 
konsole.  Since it's refreshed every time time a prompt appears the 
screen comes back to the proper color after an application executes.
Another good color choice is bright white on blue.

Hope this helps.  It's sure better for me ;-)

Larry

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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux