COLORSET (Automatic Color Setter)      Charlie Butrico
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          Purpose:  Memory-resident utility that sets the
                    foreground, background, and border colors on
                    color systems, and prevents attempts by
                    applications software to reset these colors
                    to gray-on-black.

          Format:   [d:][path]COLORSET FG/BG BORD

          Remarks:  While dozens of small programs can set your
                    screen colors, many popular programs (such as
                    dBASE II) will reset them to a drab gray-on-
                    black.  The first time you execute COLORSET,
                    it will set your colors, remain in memory,
                    look for such resetting instructions, and
                    will instead set the colors to the ones you
                    specified. Later executions of COLORSET will
                    update the attributes only.

                    FG/BG is the foreground and background color
                    (a decimal number from 0 to 255).  To
                    calculate FG/BG, multiply the number of the
                    background color by 16 and add the number of
                    the foreground color to it.

          Example:  The FG/BG number for blue text on a white
                    background is 113, i.e., ( (7*16) + 1 ).

                    The number for red text on a cyan background
                    is 52, i.e., ( (3*16) + 4 ).

                    BORD is the border number (a decimal number
                    from 0 to 15).

                    Keying just one number or using COLORSET on
                    an EGA will change only the foreground and
                    background colors.

                    After running COLORSET, the DOS CLS command
                    will clear the screen to the colors you chose
                    rather than to the default DOS gray-on-black.

                    Notes:

                    1.   DOS does not permit you to use bright
                         background colors; trying a FG/BG number
                         higher than 127 will produce text that
                         blinks.









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                    2.   ======== COLOR CHART =========

                         0-Black        8-Gray
                         1-Blue         9-Bright Blue
                         2-Green       10-Bright Green
                         3-Cyan        11-Bright Cyan
                         4-Red         12-Bright Red
                         5-Magenta     13-Bright Magenta
                         6-Brown       14-Yellow
                         7-White       15-Bright White