msicv01@ms3.UUCP (Jay G. Heiser) (03/15/88)
My office has PCs in a variety of shapes & sizes, and I'm trying to duplicate
the MS-DOS screen colors from a PC XT with a CGA board on my Zenith 248 with
EGA board.
The CGA equipped XT has this line in AUTOEXEC.BAT:
prompt $e[37;1m$p$g$e[32;44m
This makes the background blue, the prompt white, and the typed text green.
Typing CLS turns the entire screen blue. The same line on my EGA
equipped AT compatible performs slightly differently. When I type CLS,
most of the screen reverts to the default black. Is this a difference in
function between the CGA & EGA, between DOS 2 & 3, or what? How can I retain
the background color?
And if you can answer that, I've got a harder one. Running Norton on the CGA
equipped XT causes the entire screen to turn blue -- not just 80 columns of
screen, but from side to side, top to bottom. After returning to DOS, the
blue outline from Norton remains (we used red letters on a yellow background,
very striking with the blue outline). How can you access this 'super' back-
ground?
Send your answers directly to me, I'll summarize & post. Thank you.
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Jay Heiser UUCP: ..!umd5!vrdxhq!ms3!msicv01
ARPA: msicv01@hios-pent.arpa