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Name: go_places_puterwize
Date: March 6, 2006 at 19:58:53 Pacific
OS: DOS 7.10 (True DOS)
CPU/Ram: p4/256MB
Product: Gateway/MidTower
Comment:

I have a bootable DOS 7.10 on a jumpdrive and I want to change the colors of the prompt. I have this in my batch file:
PROMPT $c: = Shows <: at prompt
COLOR 0a = BLACK BACKGROUND GREEN TEXT
Does anyone know where to find the COLOR program? I searched on my computers but cant find it, and the web...
is it COLOR.EXE, COLOR.COM or COLOR.BAT?
I have searched for all extensions but cant find the app that changes colors..
Anyone have this one?

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I finished it off..
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Response Number 1
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 6, 2006 at 22:05:56 Pacific
Reply:

I don't think there is any COLOR in DOS 7.10, or ant other MSDOS.
You will likely need to load ansi.sys and use ESC sequences in your BAT.


If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2


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Response Number 2
Name: jubalsams
Date: March 7, 2006 at 02:00:52 Pacific
Reply:

Sending SA.COM to ease the pain, yet as Mechanix2Go says, you do need to load ansi.sys in config.sys.

Best


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Response Number 3
Name: franki
Date: March 7, 2006 at 06:04:01 Pacific
Reply:

There is no DOS 7.10, what actually are you using ???


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Response Number 4
Name: name
Date: March 7, 2006 at 09:08:15 Pacific
Reply:

http://www.computerhope.com/color.htm


http://www.computerhope.com/overview.htm


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Response Number 5
Name: name
Date: March 7, 2006 at 09:26:27 Pacific
Reply:

http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/menucolor.html


http://www.easydos.com/menucolor.html


http://users.cybercity.dk/~bse26236/batutil/help/MENUCO_S.HTM


http://www.syc.k12.pa.us/doshelp/


http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/msdos/03_confg.mspx


http://www.knowplace.org/pages/morgue/dos_multi-config_booting_howto.php


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Response Number 6
Name: go_places_puterwize
Date: March 7, 2006 at 17:48:05 Pacific
Reply:

Im talking about the actual program.
I already know how to use it..

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I finished it off..
Muahahaha...


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Response Number 7
Name: name
Date: March 7, 2006 at 22:37:49 Pacific
Reply:

Well, gee. If you'd READ any of that which I posted, you'd KNOW what the program is.

EVERY DOS "program", except for the so called internal commands, are a file, such as format.com, or xxx.exe. If you read the help file, you'll know what the program "is", is.


Also, since it seems a little unclear exactly what you are running, IE a hacked up version of DOS, you may not HAVE the file you need on there. If, for example, you had a properly installed version of DOS 6.22, it would be there by virtue of the installer process.

Since you are running some hacked dealie, none of us here have any way to know what files you actually have on your drive.


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Response Number 8
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 7, 2006 at 23:06:48 Pacific
Reply:

FWIW,

It's not on my 6.22


If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2


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Response Number 9
Name: franki
Date: March 8, 2006 at 02:44:01 Pacific
Reply:

Probably it is NT COMMAND PROMPT !!! seeing as it is a P4/256MB, and trying to run the COMMAND from a W9x Boot Disk

http://www.computerhope.com/color.htm


FYI NT COMMAND PROMPT is not a seperate O/S


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Response Number 10
Name: franki
Date: March 8, 2006 at 05:41:49 Pacific
Reply:

Yes it would appear that COLOR is an NT COMMAND PROMPT syntax, so no can not use as said above in WinDOS/MS-DOS:

http://www.ss64.com/nt/color.html


In true MS-DOS6 + MENUCOLOR= is used in CONFIG.SYS:

http://www.nukesoft.co.uk/msdos/command.php?id=67

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/msdos/07_refer.mspx


See also:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/dos_diffs.mspx


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Response Number 11
Name: franki
Date: March 8, 2006 at 06:54:19 Pacific
Reply:

If you are in fact using MS-DOS6... (no official version 7.10) then ANSI.SYS is the right choice:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/msdos/comm1.mspx


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Response Number 12
Name: Zenith
Date: March 10, 2006 at 10:01:50 Pacific
Reply:

Here ya go -

http://www.computerhope.com/ansisys.htm

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Response Number 13
Name: alexanrs
Date: April 26, 2006 at 05:00:14 Pacific
Reply:

Isn't COLOR an internal command in 4DOS?


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