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<font face="Arial">It is listed in the manual and in the latest 5.7
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/29/2014 3:59 PM, Mike Fedkiw
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:6b6141c5-538c-47b6-ba59-5adccc76aab2@aol.com"
type="cite">I was actually just going to post exactly that. I just
started trying letters starting with a and noticed first, that it
wasn't a syntax error and that it changed the text only. <br
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Maybe there's a page missing from the help file or something cause
anything referring to using a letter to change character colors is
certainly not in any help file I've even seen. <br clear="none">
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I remember when I last tried messing with the text colors and it
was about ten years ago. At that time I think I remember just
giving up but it's nice to finally know exactly how they work. <br
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Now I kinda wonder if I can actually get into the help file and
modify it or edit it to show the letters associated with the
colors, just for future reference. <br clear="none">
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The help is greatly appreciated <br clear="none">
Mike <br clear="none">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2014, Bill Randall
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wrandall@fptech.com"><wrandall@fptech.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="k10mail">Try \FF
On 11/29/2014 3:20 PM, Mike Fedkiw wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex
0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">When
I look at the help file, there's only 8 colors listed. 0-7.
0 black, 1 blue, 2 green,etc and 7 white. When I do a \b4
and \f7 the foreground white is a dim white not brite.<br
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Mike<br clear="none">
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On Nov 29, 2014, Bob Rasmussen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ras@anzio.com"><ras@anzio.com></a> wrote:<br
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0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">In
most environments, the intensity toggle refers to the
bakground<br clear="none">
color.<br clear="none">
For foreground (text) color, there are 16 distinct colors.
Maybe what<br clear="none">
you're looking for is "bright white".<br clear="none">
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Mike Fedk iw via
Filepro-list wrote:<br clear="none">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex
0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left:
1ex;">I took a look at that page but didn't really learn
anything.<br clear="none">
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All I want to be able to do is have the green background
with the<br clear="none">
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brite white text. I know it can be displayed because I use
it defining<br clear="none">
screens all the time.<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex
0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left:
1ex;">I think that intensity toggle just confuses me.
How do I intensify<br clear="none">
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the<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex
0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left:
1ex;">text without intensifying the background, that's
what I need to do.<br clear="none">
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On Nov 28, 2014, Jay Ashworth <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jra@baylink.com"><jra@baylink.com></a> ;
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padding-left: 1ex;">----- Original Message -----<br
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padding-left: 1ex;">From: "Mike Fedkiw via
Filepro-list"<br clear="none">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt
1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e;
padding-left: 1ex;">Here's something I've never
quite been able to figure out. Whenever<br
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I<br clear="none">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="ma rgin:
0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e;
padding-left: 1ex;">try showing certain colors in a
show command it seems just about<br clear="none">
impossible to make some of the combination I want.<br
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Here's an example (\b2\f7 * \b0\f6). Now that sets
the background<br clear="none">
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to<br clear="none">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt
1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e;
padding-left: 1ex;">the<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt
1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e;
padding-left: 1ex;">green that I am looking for but
the white foreground is set to dim<br clear="none">
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and<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt
1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e;
padding-left: 1ex;">whenev er I
try using the \I for intensity it changes the
background<br clear="none">
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to<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt
1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e;
padding-left: 1ex;">the wrong color. I've even tried
playing with the \c with the \I<br clear="none">
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for<br clear="none">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt
1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e;
padding-left: 1ex;">the characters only and it was
just a damn mess.<br clear="none">
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There are some combinations of colors that the ANSI
termina driver<br clear="none">
cannot<br clear="none">
generate. I don't have them to hand, but I thought the
relevant SCO<br clear="none">
manp age<br clear="none">
listed them.<br clear="none">
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Lessee...<br clear="none">
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Some of the restrictions are enumerated -- or at least
alluded to --<br clear="none">
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