Escape codes and colors in AT+T SysV.
~XT6561110~Mike Hall~C24~M26a~6029~
migh at cuuxb.ATT.COM
Sat Dec 9 05:48:53 AEST 1989
= In article <4349 at cuuxb.ATT.COM> migh at cuuxb.UUCP (Mike Hall) writes:
=
= >And if you want to be more device independant, try using "tput" when
= > tput setb 3 # set character cell background to color 3
= But it still doesn't solve the problem that the resulting display is
= exceedingly ugly. Only the printed characters get the new background
= color while the right-hand side of the screen remains black.
Yeah, that's why I called it a "character cell background" color.
= Is there any way to make all of the screen which is normally black some
= other color? White-on-blue is much nicer than the standard ega/vga text.
Well, maybe... I was rooting around in the support group's "stockroom" of
fixes (trying to find some info about the 2224 modems), and stumbled across
a "fix" for the display driver which sounds like it will do that. Whether
or not it changes the color past the edges of the 25x80 screen I don't know.
Somehow you've gotta convince the NJ hotline to escalate the problem to Lisle
and then "inform" the support consultant of the fix. [Boy, is _this_ ever
gonna get me in trouble!!!]
A caveat: it doesn't look like it has been sent out, so maybe they're
sitting on it for some good reason. (Then again, it looks like it's about
a year old...)
Mike (getting in trouble, Ho, ho, ho!) Hall att!cuuxb!migh
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