Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:15:12 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Blinking characters
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> From: wajnberg AT antibes DOT inra DOT fr (Eric Wajnberg)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:53:45 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> However, I just can't make the printed text to blink. The help on-line on
> textattr() (in conio.h) is not really explicit..
> 
> So my question is: once I have forground and background colors, how can I
> switch to blinking mode, and switching back to steady mode?

Try using the function `blinkvideo' (see its docs for more) before
you set the blink attribute with `textattr'.