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Date:	Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:19:28 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	SCOUG Help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Changing the colors of Commandline Text Resulting from a REXX script

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Does anyone know how to change the colors of the characters in a REXX
driven commandline session (or know where to get this info)? I'm
interested in having a REXX script run from the commandline. The script
will present the user with instructions and a set of choices. I want the
various choices to be selectable by the user typing in the appropriate
character. He, or she, selects the right character from a set of
characters, in the instructions, that are of a different color.

For example, usually the text is white (on a black background) in
commandline sessions. I would like to select commandline REXX-driven
options, by selecting from characters that are blue (maybe).

Continuing: I know that you can set 2 variables as follows:

White_On_Cyan = "1B"x || "[1;37;45m"
Ansi_Off = "1B"x || "[0m"

If you place the first variable, White_On_Cyan, in front of a set of
REXX-driven commandline text, the characters after that variable will
appear as white on a cyan background. Similarly, if you place the second
variable in front of a REXX-driven commandline text, the characters
after that appear as the normal white on black background.

OK! I would like to use other colors besides white-on-cyan. For example,
I would like the text to be blue-on-black, or yellow-on-black, etc.

Thanks for any help on this.

HCM

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