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.