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From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: strange bright/blink behavior
Date:	26 Sep 2003 12:52:13 GMT
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Giorgio Medeot <gmedeot AT yahoo DOT it> wrote:

> When I launch foo.exe, if the DOS prompt is located at the bottom of the
> screen, so that executing foo.exe causes the screen to scroll, all new
> lines that are printed also look as they had the blink bit set. 

I suspect that's because the effect of updating "ScreenAttrib" only takes
place if you actually output a character.

I think you should rather use one of the other <conio.h> functions
instead of putch(), which take the attribute as one of their
arguments, and leave ScreenAttrib alone.  See, e.g., ScreenPutChar().




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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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