COLOR
Purpose
Specifies character color and background color of the
screen.
Form
COLOR <character color > I, background color> I
<character col or >, background color>
Description
(1) <character color> and background color> are speci
fied using color codes. They can be written using the
numeric expression. When <character color> is speci
fied, characters to be displayed are colored in <char-
acter color>. When background color> is specified, the
screen fields to be displayed henceforth are colored in
background color>. If these are omitted, the original
colors remain unchanged.
(2) <character color> and background color> may be
written together or separately. See example below.
Examples
The character color is white and the back
ground color is unchanged.
The background color is blue and the char
acter color is unchanged.
COLOR 1,
The character color is blue whereas the
background color is red.
COLOR 7:
COLOR, 1s
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