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From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
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Subject: Re: vidcontrol to set background...
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:15:43AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
>    Anybody know how to set the console (or vconsole) to a light background 
>    with dark type?  `vidcontrol show' shows you various flavors of fg and
>    bg, but I didn't find anything that worked.  (I found some pretty 
>    interestly ugly combos, tho.... :)
> 

Not sure exactly what you're asking here; you obviously know about
``vidcontrol <foreground> <background>''

This script shows a wider range of combinations:

#!/bin/sh
# Display ANSI colours.
#
esc="\033[" 
echo -e "\t  40\t   41\t   42\t    43\t      44       45\t46\t 47"
for fore in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do
  line1="$fore  "
  line2="    "
  for back in 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47; do
    line1="${line1}${esc}${back};${fore}m Normal  ${esc}0m"
    line2="${line2}${esc}${back};${fore};1m Bold    ${esc}0m"
  done
  echo -e "$line1\n$line2"
done





>    thanks for some ideas,
> 
>    gary
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>                                    Gary Kline
>                                     Cray Inc
>                               Seattle, Washington
>                                         
> 
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