SETCOLOR.CMD  Version 0.2 - A CP/M-86 Foreground & Background Color Setter
Freeware from Kirk Lawrence (February, 1994)


SETCOLOR allows you to easily change the default CP/M-86 background and
foreground colors.

At the prompt, type  SETCOLOR  then press the ENTER key.

SETCOLOR tests for the presence of an active Herc-compatible or MDA monochrome
video system.  If found, SETCOLOR will abort with an appropriate error message.

When SETCOLOR has loaded, you'll be presented with a menu of BACKGROUND colors
to choose from, along with a sample of what the colors look like.  Make your
selection by pressing the NUMBER key (0 through 7) which corresponds to your
choice, as shown on the screen...or press the ESC key to exit the program.

Next, SETCOLOR changes the background to the color you selected, and then
presents you with a menu of FOREGROUND color choices.  Simply press the
LETTER key (A through P) which corresponds to your choice, and the fore-
ground will be changed to that color.

On both menus, only keypresses which match the indicated choices will be
accepted.  If you press any other key, no action will be taken, and SETCOLOR
will continue to wait for an appropriate keypress.

The colors you select will remain in effect until:

   1) You change them by using SETCOLOR again.
   2) Another program changes them.
   3) You reboot the computer.
   4) CP/M-86 generates an error message on the status line.
   5) You issue a CTRL-BREAK command.

Due to the way CP/M-86 was designed, the screen colors default to white-on-
black whenever the system encounters an error or a "break."  If you wish, you
can use this questionable "feature" to quickly restore the default white-on-
black screen colors: just press CTRL-BREAK at the prompt.

If you find this program helpful, you may use it at no charge.  As is always
the case with "freeware," there are no guarantees whatsoever.  If you use
SETCOLOR.CMD, you do so strictly and entirely at your own risk and peril.
Your use of SETCOLOR.CMD shall be deemed prima facie evidence under law that
you understand and accept these terms and conditions.