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* I do appreciate your efforts to get me going on editing and displaying colored text the old fashioned DOS text way * Obviously , this capability has been lost to the history books * So , having spent many hours finding and downloading ASCII text editors and even using your batch solution , nothing...

Hi > IcarusLives * Thank you for your quick reply * I created a batch file with your code * It ran in XP but I only got the result > see attached image * * It seems like nobody has written a text editor that will do this ancient form of text * It must have been possible back in the days . . . * Poss...

In the good old days of DOS , a text file contained individual characters preceded by a color code byte (background color and text/character color) for EACH character. Has that ability been lost? Is there a feature in DOS or some software that can still do that coloring? If so , how do you display t...