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Re: background color of the command window

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On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, giacomo boffi wrote:

> it seems that you use alpine, so chances are that you use something
> like an xterm to run gnuplot --- what follows stems from this
> assumption :)

No, there is a Windows version of Alpine. I am with Windows 8.

> do you like a green background? at the gnuplot prompt type

The color doesn't matter it it helps understanding things. I'll change it 
to yellowish later on.

> gnuplot> !echo '^[[42;1m'
>
> and press return (NB: you have to press Ctrl-V ESC to get the "^["
> above)

It opens a DOS window for a second and that's all.

In XP I could change the background color of Gnuplot, Notepad, Word and 
other applications with a right click on the desktop. But Windows 8 has 
lost this feature!

Bye,

Jean-Pierre Coulon

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background color of the command window Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon@cacas.pam.obs-nice.fr> - 2014-07-01 14:18 +0200
  Re: background color of the command window giacomo boffi <pecore@pascolo.net> - 2014-07-01 18:18 +0200
    Re: background color of the command window Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon@cacas.pam.obs-nice.fr> - 2014-07-01 20:39 +0200
      Re: background color of the command window pecore@pascolo.net - 2014-07-03 01:29 +0200
        Re: background color of the command window pecore@pascolo.net - 2014-07-10 22:08 +0200

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