Escape codes and colors in AT+T SysV.

Pim Zandbergen pim at cti-software.nl
Sat Dec 9 02:28:44 AEST 1989


les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:

>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.  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.

The setcolor command in SCO Xenix does just that.
Unfortunately, the escape codes this program sends
are not understood by the System V/386 console driver.
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