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When Black Star was creating our new web site,
Netscape:
Extensions to HTML)
We wanted to add this tag to all the pages HyperNews generated.
And we wanted to be reasonably general in case we later decided to change our
color scheme (as we did once during development.) Therefore we added
five new variables to the hnrc file as follows
$bgcolor="#000000";
$textcolor="#f0f0f0";
$linkcolor="#FFFF00";
$vlinkcolor="#00FF00";
$alinkcolor="#0077FF";
Next we needed to tell HyperNews to use these variables to define the
appropriate tags. Currently HyperNews HTML files can be generated
by one of three programs, hnview.pl, edit-response.pl, and
edit-article.pl. In each of these you merely replace the
<BODY> tag with the expanded body tag:
<body bgcolor="$bgcolor" text="$textcolor" LINK="$linkcolor" VLINK="$vlinkcolor" ALINK="$alinkcolor">
That's all there is to it. Now all the HyperNews articles provide
white text on black just like the rest of the server.
I hope this idea and code may be of some use to those of you with similar
concerns.
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Netscape Extensions to HyperNews (including code) 
