NAME -- stc Scramble the 16 Textmode Colors

PAGE DATE -- 199990414

FORMAT
stc

DESCRIPTION
VGA cards in textmode can use 16 colors for text foregrounds and backgrounds of each character cell. These 16 colors are out of a palette that is specified as 18 bits per color. stc randomizes the 16 stock VGA textmode colors with each call. It makes the console a bit more pleasant, and probably less fatigueing. The colors chosen on a particular invocation are based roughly on the stock colors, and so should be legible. If not, run it again, or run textcolor -r to get the hardware defaults back. stc is a script; read the executable for more on my wacky color-cube rotation in Bash.

OTHER
see textcolor, originally called setcolor in the SVGATextMode package. Also see the normal script.

AUTHOR
/bin/stc and this seedoc are copyright 1999 Rick Hohensee. stc originates with cLIeNUX and is released for redistribution only with cLIeNUX.