diff --git a/tests/test-rem b/tests/test-rem
index ab2809d5..b788cfc6 100644
--- a/tests/test-rem
+++ b/tests/test-rem
@@ -104,6 +104,17 @@ EOF
 ../src/remind -pp - 1 jan 2012 9:00 <<'EOF' >> ../tests/test.out 2>&1
 REM Mon OMITFUNC foo MSG bar
 EOF
+
+# Test default color
+../src/remind -ppp - 1 Jan 2012 9:00 <<'EOF' >> ../tests/test.out 2>&1
+REM 2 MSG Normal
+SET $DefaultColor "255 0 0"
+REM 3 MSG Red
+SET $DefaultColor "-1 -1 -1"
+REM 4 MSG Normal
+# Should give an error
+SET $DefaultColor "256 0 0"
+EOF
 cmp -s ../tests/test.out ../tests/test.cmp
 if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
    echo "Remind:  Acceptance test PASSED"
diff --git a/tests/test.cmp b/tests/test.cmp
index bf227fbe..2eeb9b40 100644
--- a/tests/test.cmp
+++ b/tests/test.cmp
@@ -4956,3 +4956,43 @@ February 29
 {"date":"2012-01-23", "filename":"-", "lineno":1, "wd":["Monday"], "nonconst_expr":1, "priority":5000, "body":"bar"}
 {"date":"2012-01-30", "filename":"-", "lineno":1, "wd":["Monday"], "nonconst_expr":1, "priority":5000, "body":"bar"}
 # rem2ps2 end
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+-stdin-(7): Number too high
+[
+{
+"monthname":"January", "year":2012, "daysinmonth":31, "firstwkday":0, "mondayfirst":0, "daynames":["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"],"prevmonthname":"December", "daysinprevmonth":31, "nextmonthname":"February", "daysinnextmonth":29, "entries":[
+{"date":"2012-01-02", "filename":"-", "lineno":1, "d":2, "priority":5000, "body":"Normal"},
+{"date":"2012-01-03", "filename":"-", "lineno":3, "passthru":"COLOR", "d":3, "priority":5000, "r":255, "g":0, "b":0, "rawbody":"Red", "body":"255 0 0 Red"},
+{"date":"2012-01-04", "filename":"-", "lineno":5, "d":4, "priority":5000, "body":"Normal"}
+]
+}
+]