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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 10:35:59 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: mistake in COLOR enum in conio.h
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On  6 Aug 97 at 14:39, Chris Croughton wrote:
> The 'oddity' is of course BROWN in the dark
> colours versus YELLOW in the light (octal 006 and
> 016), which is because of the weird way the DOS
> pallette is traditionally set up.  But that's the
> way DOS has been ever since the first PC colour 
> adapter, the CGA.

Actually, there's no wierdness at all. The colors are determined by 
the bits of number; the 4 lower bits are: IRGB (I=bit 3 and B=bit 0).


Bill
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