From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Blink vs 16 background colors.
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 11:53:16 +0200
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Gregary J Boyles wrote:
> 
> How do you change the way in which the 7 bit of the text attribute byte is
> interpreted i.e. change between having a blink attribute and having 16
> (instead of 8) background colors.

There are two functions in libc (declared in conio.h) and described
in libc.inf:

void    blinkvideo(void);
void    intensevideo(void);

Robert
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