DP> From: DONALD PEDDER 

 DP> Okay, I finally found the code for green foreground
 DP> in the help for ANSI.SYS, but now what? I put
 DP> ANSI.SYS in my config and re-booted (however I don't
 DP> see it when I do a "mem /a", unless it's under "CON"
 DP> or "DOS").

you listed it as DEVICE=ANSI.SYS with the proper path, correct?

 DP> I created a file with the escape sequence in it,
 DP> but when I do a "type" on it, my text is still white.

what escape sequence did you use?

 DP> DOSbook isn't very precise on how to use ANSI.SYS -
 DP> it says to put it in the config, which I did, it says
 DP> to edit a file with the escape sequence and then do
 DP> a "type" on it, which I did, and that's all it says,

that's rather sad...

 DP> yet I still have white text. Does this file need to
 DP> be passed to ANSI.SYS in the config or something?
 DP> Confused.

try it this way... assuming your current prompt is $p $g...

PROMPT=$e[0;32;1m$p $g

put that in your autoexec.bat... if it is too bright, remove the ';1'
portion... you should be able to set this manually at your prompt to find
the sequence that you like...

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