4DOS Help Topic: SCRPUT Purpose: Position text on the screen and display it in color. Format: SCRPUT row col [BRIght] [BLInk] fg ON [BRIght] bg text row: Starting row col: Starting column fg: Foreground character color bg: Background character color text: The text to display See also: ECHO, SCREEN, TEXT, and VSCRPUT. Usage SCRPUT allows you to create attractive screen displays in batch files. You use it to specify where a message will appear on the screen and what colors will be used to display the message text. You can use SCRPUT to create menu displays, logos, etc. SCRPUT works like SCREEN, but requires you to specify the display colors. See Colors and Color Names for details about colors and notes on the use of bright background colors. The row and column values are zero-based, so on a standard 25 line by 80 column display, valid rows are 0 - 24 and valid columns are 0 - 79. SCRPUT checks for a valid row and column, and displays a "Usage" error message if either value is out of range. You can also specify the row and column as offsets from the current cursor position. Begin the value with a plus sign [+] to move down the specified number of rows or to the right the specified number of columns, or with a minus sign [-] to move up or to the left. If you specify 999 for the row, SCRPUT will center the text vertically. If you specify 999 for the column, SCRPUT will center the text horizontally. SCRPUT normally does not move the cursor when it displays the text. However, if you have set OutputBIOS to Yes in 4DOS.INI, SCRPUT will leave the cursor at the end of the displayed text. The following batch file fragment displays part of a menu, in color: cls white on blue scrput 3 10 bri whi on blu Select an option: scrput 6 20 bri red on blu 1 - Word Processing scrput 7 20 bri yel on blu 2 - Spreadsheet ... If you have an unusual display adapter which does not support the direct video output used by SCRPUT, see the OutputBIOS directive.