Category : File Managers
Archive   : ISC.ZIP
Filename : COLOR.DOC
Lines 3 through 10 of ISICONS.TXT are used for controling sound and color:
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³ 0 ( background = Black ) ³
³ 7 ( box frames = Light Gray ) ³
³ 3 ( normal text = Cyan ) ³
³ 11 ( highlighted text = LightCyan ) ³
³ 1 ( selected icon background = Blue ) ³
³ 14 ( selected icon text = Yellow ) ³
³ 2 ( Continue text = Green ) ³
³ sound ( "nosound" to shut off sound ) ³
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The comments to the right explain the use of each color code used on the left.
The first line, for example, is used to set the overall background color. The
"0" on the left tells IS to use black for this color. The complete color
table is this:
0 : Black
1 : Blue
2 : Green
3 : Cyan
4 : Red
5 : Magenta
6 : Brown
7 : LightGray
8 : DarkGray
9 : LightBlue
10 : LightGreen
11 : LightCyan
12 : LightRed
13 : LightMagenta
14 : Yellow
15 : White
The first 8 can be used as either foreground or background colors. The
remaining colors are for foreground use only.
To change a color, edit ISICONS.TXT and change the number in the corresponding
line, then re-run IS. The comments on the right have no effect.
For composite monitors, the above configuration will show highlighted text
for the selected icons. Reverse video is better, and this can be done by
changing the "selected icon background" to LightGray (7) and the "selected
icon text" to Black (0).
To shut off the sound, change the last line to read "nosound" (or anything
else that doesn't start with "sou").
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/