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DOS Shell 5.0 - Colors Lost When Entering WP
DocumentID: 600092
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:28:19 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The DOS 5.0 Shell causes WordPerfect 5.1 to lose the color settings. If the user enters WP from the shell, exits out of WP back to the shell, and re- enters WP, the colors will be lost. Solutions: The customer tried re-installing DOS 5.0 and the problem was corrected. The user noticed that there was now a DOSSHELL.VID file present which was missing from the original DOS directory. This file contains all of the DOS shell color and display settings much like the WP .SET file.

The colors in WP changed to black and white when another user swapped in and out of the DOS 5.0 Shell. This user had the text driver auto-selected in WP 5.1. DOS Shell was not restoring the color display when task swapping. To correct the problem, the user selected the 80x25 16 color text driver in WP 5.1.

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