From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: blinking characters
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:08:10 +0100
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"Kurt Aistinger" <kurt DOT aistinger AT chello DOT at> wrote:

> Hi!
> I recently downloaded DJGPP and now I have a question about making
> characters blink: How can I do it? :-)
> In TurboC++ there just was a color named BLINK. You gave a function as the
> color-parameter BLINK and the text was blinking.
> How can this be done with DJGPP?

The function you need is textattr(), type "info libc a textattr" to
read the documentation.

Example
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     /* blinking white on blue */
     textattr(BLINK | (BLUE << 4) | WHITE);