*TIRED* of seeing white text on your $$$ color monitor? Can't understand why
after all of this time, DOS still displays white text on a black screen? 
Take control of DOS and patch your way to colordom. Using your favorite 
binary editor (PCTools, Norton, etc) look for the following byte (hex) 
string in COMMAND.COM of MS-DOS version 6 (ONLY!):

   8b c8 b4 06 b7 07 32 db

The 07 is what you are after. Changing it, for instance, to a 02 will make a
black screen with green text, upon execution of the DOS command CLS. See 
table below for numbers.

Naturally, patching your COMMAND.COM is a very serious thing so please take
the extra precaution of creating a boot floppy with the unpatched version 
of COMMAND.COM, just in case something goes wrong and your machine won't 
boot. There should be a copy of COMMAND.COM in your DOS directory also.

Enjoy your new color freedom!

00 - black (not recommended, obviously!)
01 - blue
02 - green
03 - cyan
04 - red
05 - magenta
06 - brown
07 - light grey (normal)
08 - dark grey
09 - light blue
10 - light green
11 - light cyan
12 - light red
13 - light magenta 
14 - yellow
15 - bright white

16 + Don't know, haven't tried. Might be different combinations of foreground
     /backgrounds. You're on your own here.