Norton Commander Color Editor, Version 1.0               Symantec Corporation
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The NC Color Editor (NCCE) allows you to change colors within the Norton 
Commander, version 3.0 and later.  There are four different color regions 
that can be changed within NCCE. (Black and White, Laptop, Color1 and Color2)
You can run NCCE from anywhere on your system as long as both NC and NCCE are 
in your path, or your current working directory.  NC Color Editor will first
look in your working directory for NCMAIN.EXE, and then in your path 
environment variable.  


COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
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Usage:  NCCOLOR [color] [region] [noback] [restore] [reset] [?]

[color]  -  The Norton Commander Color Editor comes with these six 
            pre-defined color settings:

            Default1 - These color settings match the shipping colors under 
                       the NC Color1 setting.

            Default2 - These color settings match the shipping colors under
                       the NC Color2 settings.

            Spring   - These color settings contain bright, spring time
                       colors.  Green and purple dominate your screen.

            Summer   - These color settings contain summer time colors.  
                       Aqua and purple dominate your screen.

            Fall     - These color settings contain fall time colors.
                       Brown, blue and black dominate your screen.

            Winter   - These color settings contain Winter Holiday colors.
                       Red and Green dominate your screen.

[region] -  The Norton Commander, Version 4.0 comes with four different
            color settings.  (B&W, Laptop, Color1 and Color2)  Version 3.0
            of NC has three different color settings.  (B&W, Laptop and 
            Color)  Use the following command line options to select what
            color regions you want edited:  (These color regions can also
            be selected within the NC Color Editor)

            B&W (Black and White)
            Laptop
            Color1 
            Color2 (Norton Commander 4.0)

[noback] -  Using the NOBACK switch will stop The Norton Commander Color
            Editor from making a backup copy of NCMAIN.EXE when it writes
            the color changes.  By default, NCCE makes a backup of NCMAIN.EXE,
            writes the changes, verifies the changes, and if everything 
            verifies properly, deletes the backup copy of NCMAIN.EXE.  If
            the verification fails, NCCE restores the backup copy and gives
            the appropriate error messages.  Possible reasons for wanting to
            use NOBACK are very limited disk space, and the time it takes to
            backup NCMAIN.EXE.  

[restore] - Using the RESTORE switch will restore the latest color changes 
            made.  NCCE stores the latest color changes in a file called
            NCCOLOR.CLR.  Possible reasons for using the RESTORE switch 
            include program upgrades or re-installations, or recovery from
            the RESET command line option.

            It is also possible to save your favorite color changes to a file
            for later use.  After saving the changes with NCCE, just rename 
            the NCCOLOR.CLR file to the name of your choice.  If you later
            want to restore these colors, rename the file back to NCCOLOR.CLR
            and run NCCE with the RESTORE command line option. 
            ( ex: NCCOLOR RESTORE )  

[reset]   - Using the RESET switch will reset all color setting to their 
            original shipping state.  Use this if you just want to start over
            from scratch.   

[?]       - Using the ? command line switch will give you a command line
            help screen.


COMMAND LINE EXAMPLES
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     NCCOLOR COLOR1 SPRING  -  This will change the colors under the Color1
                               setting to the pre-defined Spring colors.

     NCCOLOR SUMMER NOBACK  -  This will change the colors under the Color1
                               settings to the pre-defined Summer colors.
                               If a color region is not specified at the
                               command line, NCCE defaults to the Color1
                               region.  Also, because of the NOBACK switch,
                               NCCE will not backup NCMAIN.EXE.
     
     NCCOLOR RESET          -  This will change all color regions to their
                               initial shipping state.


ANTI-VIRUS ALERTS
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If you are using an Anti-virus program that scans executables for unknown
viruses, you might get an alert box with NCMAIN.EXE.  NCCE changes the
colors within The Norton Commander by patching values into NCMAIN.EXE.  If
you should get an alert for the file NCMAIN.EXE, just rescan the file.