Re: what controls cursor color (in text, not the mouse pointer)?

[chuckcar]

see.my.s...@nowhere.com.invalid wrote in
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> I've been trying to get more comfortable colors and I changed "window"
> to a pale green. Unfortunately, the light gray cursor shows up very
> poorly on that. I can't see anything in the list of color defs that
> would control it. The only thing that's currently set to that color
> didn't change it when I tested it. Anybody know this little arcane
> tidbit of knowledge? :)
>

If you load ansi.sys in config.sys, you can use the prompt command in
autoexec.bat to change your cursor colour with ansi control characters.

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[J. P. Gilliver]

"chuckcar" <ch...@nil.car> wrote in message
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I think that will only affect the colours in DOS boxes, not in Windows
app.s, which I presume is what the OP is asking about, since he mentioned
(a) changing "window", (b) "the list of color defs".