How to change colors of console window?

[Bill Walker]

Can you give an example of using an escape sequence to change the DOS
windows to, say blue on white?


"Cousin Stanley" <CousinStanley at HotMail.com> wrote in message
news:avi1u6$g4ojc$1 at ID-130333.news.dfncis.de...
> || w98 console is annoying in other ways too, IIRC. I.e., you
> || have to load doskey to get line recall, and then that doesn't
> || get inherited when you run python in the console interactively?
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> Bengt ...
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> I'm using doskey and find it very useful
> and on this Win98 system it does NOT inherit into Python,
> which  IS  a problem ...
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> As a result, I do little testing directly in interactive mode
> but make changes in a text editor and then run ...
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> doskey does make switching back and forth
> between ... edit ... and ... python ... very easy
> after typing the lines the fist time ...
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> I have managed to switch the DOS colors easily
> using ANSI Escape sequences with the ANSI.SYS driver,
> but I'm curious as how to do it with DOS/Win configurations ...
>
> Cousin Stanley
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