On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:02:12PM -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote: > Do you know any way of changing the really ugly white on black background? Try "help nansi" in dosemu. The ansi driver used to be the main way to achieve this in the old days, although I never used it because it was noted for slowing down the computer. I think the nansi driver is a lot faster. IIRC, the technique was to insert colour-setting escape-codes in the prompt string (a little help here: "prompt /?"). Try a google search. > What does 'codepage' mean wrt mode? Are these fonts or characters > like Cyrillic? I believe so. Karl. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html