Ref: 11640029
Title: Retrieving the Pulldown Menu Bar in 3+Mail
Date: 1/12/90

Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991.  All rights reserved.

Some applications, such as Time Manager & Multimate, will set a
PC's color video display to black and white mode.  Unfortunately,
the next time the user calls 3+Mail, it displays in color but the
pulldown menu bar is not displayed onscreen.

Note:  The problem does NOT occur in 3+Mail client-side, version
1.3.2.  If the first item in the pulldown menu bar is "OS" instead
of "DOS," you are using a version of Mail that does not exhibit
the problem.

To solve the problem temporarily, a user can type "mode co80" at
the DOS prompt.  The problem will return after Time Manager or
another "blank and white" application is used.

For a more permanent solution, the network administrator can
create or modify a batch file that calls 3+Mail:

1.  Make sure there is a DEVICE=ANSI.SYS statement in the
CONFIG.SYS file.

2.  Insert commands in a batch file that set the video in
color mode with the prompt command.  Here is a sample batch
file for use with 3+Menus:

    prompt $e[=3l
    mail        ^
                ^Make sure this is a lowercase L

For users who are not running 3+Menus, the batch file should load
the standard prompt after setting the video mode with the prompt
command.  Here is a sample batch file for use without 3+Menus:

    prompt $e[=3l $p$g
    mail            ^
                    ^The standard prompt

