filepro colors

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Fedkiw via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>

> Here's something I've never quite been able to figure out. Whenever I
> try showing certain colors in a show command it seems just about
> impossible to make some of the combination I want.
> 
> Here's an example (\b2\f7 * \b0\f6). Now that sets the background to the
> green that I am looking for but the white foreground is set to dim and
> whenever I try using the \I for intensity it changes the background to
> the wrong color. I've even tried playing with the \c with the \I for
> the characters only and it was just a damn mess.

There are some combinations of colors that the ANSI termina driver cannot
generate.  I don't have them to hand, but I thought the relevant SCO manpage
listed them.

Lessee...

Some of the restrictions are enumerated -- or at least alluded to -- here:

  http://perldoc.perl.org/Term/ANSIColor.html

Cheers,
-- jra
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