Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!sri-unix!ctnews!pyramid!prls!philabs!linus!mbunix!jcmorris From: jcmorris@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Joseph C. Morris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: colors under ansi.sys and codeview Message-ID: <33530@linus.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 88 22:30:54 GMT References: <1769@loral.UUCP> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: jcmorris@mbunix (Morris) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA Lines: 24 In a recent article jlh@loral.UUCP (The Mad Merkin Hunter) writes: > codeview >seems to have decided on it's own that I want black and white. > > When said background is anything but black I have a black border >around my (beautiful) display. Last things first: the EGA doesn't give you a border on the display...more properly, it gives you one, but it's always black. The most likely source of the loss of color support (based on too many similar experiences) is that you've started running some new program which doesn't bother to leave the display mode like it found it. Two recent examples I've run into are Computer Associates' accounting packages and MEC's MASS-11 word processing program. If you've got a way to see what the current mode setting is (e.g., using Microsoft's WHAT program), you'll probably find that you are now in mode 2; mode 3 is where you should be with an EGA. Try using the MODE CO80 command and see if the colors reappear. (Some programs don't bother to check the mode before sending color orders to the screen and will display colors even if the screen claims to be in mode 2...and will succeed. Others, like Norton Utilities and apparently Codeview, honor the current screen mode and don't try to color an apparently B&W screen.) Good luck.