MENUCOLOR= (CONFIG.SYS Command)

                                                         Compatibility: 6.0+ 
 Purpose: Chooses screen colors for MultiConfig Menu display.

  Syntax: MENUCOLOR=frgnd[,bkgnd]

█▌Parameters▐█

    frgnd specifies a foreground (text) color number (0 to 15).
    bkgnd specifies a background color number (0 to 15; default=0).
                      ┌───┬─────────────┬────┬────────────────┐
          Color Codes │ 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 │ Bright Yellow  │
                      │ 7 │ White       │ 15 │ Bright White   │
                      └───┴─────────────┴────┴────────────────┘

    Note: Don't put any spaces after the comma; use frgnd,bkgnd with no
          intervening spaces (it's a bug in DOS 6.0, folks).

█▌TECH Notes▐█

  ■ Notice that the color codes correspond to Video Attributes.

  ■ At system startup, the video system is still in its default setting in
    which character-blink is active rather than background-bold (see
    INT 10H 1003H).  Thus, if you use 8-15 as bkgnd, you will actually see
    a background with the corresponding 0-7 color and the foreground
    characters will blink.

  ■ Screen colors are reset when ANSI.SYS device driver is loaded.  You may
    want to rearrange the order of your DEVICE= lines to minimize the
    visual impact.  Or use something like...

      @Echo ←[nnm   (nn is an ANSI color code. See ANSI Escape Sequences)

    ...in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

See Also: MultiConfig Menus
          CONFIG.SYS Commands
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