Colored prompt

[Magnum]

I am trying to find a way to load ansi.sys in order to display a colored prompt.

The COLOR command isn't cutting it.  :bg

I have modified ansi.nt and config.nt with no luck.

I am hoping there is a way, I sure miss a lot of things that DOS had.

[dedndave]

ansi.sys is a 16-bit driver
cmd.exe is a 32-bit program
you may be able to load it by modifying a shortcut to cmd.exe, however - never tried it on an nt system   :P

at any rate, create a shortcut to cmd.exe
then, right-click on the shortcut - Properties - Colors tab   :U

[dedndave]

if you want to change colors on the fly, as in a batch file...
make a little program that reads the command line and sets the console attributes using SetConsoleTextAttribute

[Magnum]

Dave,

This works great on XP Sp3.

It even works with prompt commands and doskey macros.

http://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=188&lang=en

Now I am looking for a red white and blue prompt that had an american flag as well.

[dedndave]

 :P