From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: dos color ?
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:51:17 GMT
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:17:11 -0500, "Joe Toth" <jtoth AT megsinet DOT net>
wrote:

>You should only use the 'dark' collors listed in <conio.h> for the
>first of the two COLORS listed above. If you specify one of the
>light colors, it will be the same as entering the BLINK value.

However, there's a call to BIOS to turn off blinking and enable high
intensity backgrounds.  Check Ralf Brown's INT 10 docs.

>I don't remember which of the 2 <COLORS> values is the character
>and which is the background.  Try what you want and if it is reverse
>from what you want, simply reverse the specifications in the code.

The first is the background.  textmode(0x07) is light gray (7) text
on a black (0) background.

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