FORMAT
textcolor
textcolor -c
textcolor -r
textcolor [ 0-15 0-255 0-255 0-255 ].... STD_REDIRECTION
color red green blue
DESCRIPTION
VGA can do 16 text colors at a time. Those 16 colors can be chosen from a range that
is only limited by what your monitor can actually produce.
textcolor with -d or no arguments prints the current values of the
VGA colortable to stdout (the terminal, unless redirected) in a format suitable for inclusion in C sourcecode, with values
in hexadecimal.
The -r switch restores the standard colors. -c is a mild cLIeNUX tweak of the
standard VGA defaults.
Color 0 is usually black, i.e. the background in a plain vt.
The default colors (which you probably don't want to vary from too far in normal use) are.....
# red green blue name
0 0 0 0 black
1 170 0 0 red
2 0 170 0 green
3 170 85 0 bletch
4 0 0 170 blue
5 170 0 170 magenta
6 0 170 170 cyan/turquoise
7 170 170 170 light grey
8 85 85 85 grey
9 255 85 85 bright red
10 85 255 85 bright green
11 255 255 85 bright yellow
12 85 85 255 bright blue
13 255 85 255 bright magenta
14 85 255 255 bright cyan
15 255 255 255 white
EXAMPLE
RIGHTS
textcolor is the "setcolor" program as distributed in the SVGATextMode package, renamed
and with the -c added.
The sourcecode contains this credit... - Bob McCracken kerouac@ssnet.com.
The setcolor.c file is from 1995.
This seedoc/manpage is copyright 19990413 Rick Hohensee and is not released for redistribution separate from
cLIeNUX.