reverse text

I'm looking for a way to reverse text color. (eg transpose
foreground/background) I'm expecting to find some esc or ctrl
sequence of characters to turn on reverse video and similarly to
turn off.  Normally I would ssh in, from an xterm, but I'd like a
technique to work as expected from console, as well--if that's an
issue I can check TERM setting.

The only doc I've seen on doing this is for PS1 on some shells
but I'm looking for something generic enough that I can invoke
with printf commands.

// George


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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><